投稿の詳細: 味噌の変　An incident regarding Miso

事故米で一躍有名になった
輸入米に黴が見つかる頻度が
多くなって（全量検査をやり始めたらしい）
味噌業界が困っているらしい。

味噌の原料は主に大豆、米、塩だが、
低価格の味噌の原料米にはこの
輸入米が使われているのだ。
事故米として入手できなくなったので
安く味噌ができなくなりつつあるという。

（もちろん須坂の味噌蔵はそんな
米など使っているはずも無いので
心配は無用だが。）

ということは、今までは大して検査も
せずに流通していた米から味噌が作られて
いたわけだ。その米がどの程度
無事故だったのか？

安い食品を追い求めるということは
安全を犠牲にすることだと誰かが
言っていると書いたが、納得
してしまうようなことがおきている。

加工米の原産国表示もするべきでは
ないのかな。

I hear that Miso makers are having
difficulties to get cheap rice because
the imported rice which had became famous
for the illegal distribution of inadquate
quality rice are often found with fungus
recently due to frequent quality checks.
It seems that the government started to
check all the imported rice.

The main raw materials of miso are
soy beans, rice and salt. Imported rice
is used for this purpose to make reasonable
priced miso. But there are so many cases
that imported rice are found inadquate for
food materials, the miso makers will
have to use more expensive domestic rice.

(Of course, local miso makers in Suzaka
uses mainly local and domestic materials and
we do not need to worry.)

This indicates that the reasonably priced miso
have been made with the imported rice which
have been seldom checked for the quality.
I should imagine that there is good chance
inadequate imported rice may
have been used for miso. How safe were these
rice ?

I worte here before that somebody
said that cheap food would mean sacrifising
safety. I have to agree to it as I encounter
such incidents.

The origin of country should be indicated
in the labels of goods.