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Chapter 297 Security Crisis

Gore looked at Mickey beside Siu City in confusion.

Mickey is a professional lobbyist who has been stationed in Congress for many years, and Suecheng also contacted Gore through his company. American politicians like large oil companies, but trusted lobbyists. Mickey used to be an aide to senators and was familiar with Gore. He introduced interest groups to meet Gore more than once. There are also lobbyists who simply were retired senators or congressmen, or famous expert professors.

Mickey nodded to Gore and signaled him to listen.

Gore then quietly faced Sucheng and smiled: "Chairman Su please tell me."

"We built a new laboratory to support environmental organizations. Fortunately, the laboratory quickly made valuable discoveries." Sucheng kept a secret. After a brief pause, he said: "The valuable discoveries I mentioned are related to the health of millions of people around the world, so I think it has great political value."

The health of millions of people means hundreds of thousands of votes to Gore. His interest increased greatly and asked, "What kind of discovery?"

Mickey laughed twice and said, "Chairman Su believes it is more meaningful to hand over this matter to you. Dahua Industrial also hopes to get some extra rewards."

"oh?"

Sucheng whispered: "Health problems are mainly concentrated in three regions, the United States, Taiwan and several countries in Europe. I don't care about the United States and Europe, but I hope that you, as an environmentalist and a U.S. senator, pay attention to the health crisis in Taiwan."

"It's no problem." Gore narrowed his eyes.

Su Cheng continued: "I hope you can urge, or rather, remind the leaders of Taiwan to conduct more stringent reviews on environmental issues and make results."

Gore said concisely: "Yes."

"In your name, praise the Dahua Environmental Protection Organization and support it as much as possible. I hope this friendship will be with you, whether you become the president of the United States or not." Siu Cheng knew that he could not become, but the vice president was enough. Gore had the ability to do so before 2000, far exceeding Bush Jr. until he had an arrow in Florida.

This time, Gore was a little hesitant. In the words of Americans, friendship is owed you a favor. Generally speaking, they still comply with their promises. The pressure on Gore was not too great, and what he could not decide was the praise and support of Dahua Environmental Protection Organization. From the perspective of politicians, once it was announced, it would be linked to political enemies.

Mickey laughed and explained: "Dahua Environmental Protection's registered place is the United States."

"Oh, then there's no problem." Gore suddenly relaxed. During 1991, the blockade was almost gone, and the US government had long stopped discussing this matter. But senators who want to be president should still pay attention, although he was destined to be unable to do it.

Siucheng looked at Mickey. This time, the latter nodded to Siucheng and signaled that the two people had reached an agreement. On Capitol Hill, the contract is a very meaningless thing. Perhaps more than half of the members of the parliament could not bear the US Constitution. But everyone knows not to sign.

The evidence left on paper is the most annoying.

After confirming that Gore understood and agreed to his request, Su Cheng continued: "Our Dahua laboratory found a strange bump on the gas chromatograph when testing some food in Taiwan. You know, gas chromatographs are like electrocardiograms, and each fluctuation represents a substance. If it is a national food safety testing agency, they usually only care about those fluctuations representing known toxic substances and do not compare other unknown substances. It can be understood that the workload of detecting the substances at the location is very large, and there are contamination of the test items. No matter what, our detectors compared this strange bump..."

I heard that it is food, Gore's attention has been extremely high. Taiwan and Japan often export American food. Compared with the food safety issues that arise in the United States, the accidents of imported food that have occurred are obviously low-risk and high-yield projects.

Under Gore's burning eyes, Sucheng said in the statement: "Our staff members used nearly a month of work to compare this substance out of curiosity and finally found a strong carcinogen, plasticizer. It includes a large number of phthalic acid, abbreviated dehp, which is a compound that is explicitly prohibited by countries to add to food. But according to our estimates, more than 100,000 people around the world apply or consume it every day."

As an environmentalist, Gore knew what this meant. He felt that it was inappropriate to express his views in ecstasy, so he said in a sad tone and shining eyes: "This is a large-scale food safety issue."

"The world involves." Sucheng affirmed: "At the beginning, our researchers also suspected that the food was contaminated by packaging, but because of their sense of responsibility, they spent a lot of time tracing the source of the plasticizer. Finally, they found that it came from a food additive "clouding agent", which used plasticizers to replace palm oil, which could reduce costs. Unfortunately, due to the widespread use of additives containing strong carcinogens, a large number of beverages and foods used it."

"What you are talking about is the sales volume of 100,000 copies per day?"

"We estimate that sales of around one million a day lasted for several years, maybe 10 years."

"10 years! I haven't found it in 10 years?"

“It’s a pity, but.”

“Is this additive still being sold?”

"It is still being sold. Because of its cheap price, this company that adds plasticizers has become the largest additive manufacturer in Taiwan. Their products are used in hundreds of beverages. In addition, jams, dairy products, fruit powder, instant noodles and some medicines contain plasticizers. The hardest hit areas are sports drinks and juices." Su Cheng took out a bottle of common sports drinks and put them on the table and said, "I bought it downstairs, and it used Taiwanese additives."

Gore's face changed slightly. It seemed that he or his family had drunk it. His voice became a little deeper and asked, "What kind of results will the plasticizer inside cause?"

Su Cheng also said: "In addition to carcinogenicity, research shows that it is also an environmental hormone that can increase the body's estrogen. It causes men's sexual dysfunction, low fertility rate, and a greater chance of having a girl after pregnancy. Finally, it causes the greatest damage to infants and young children, which will lead to problems such as shortness of men."

"What?"

"Uh...a large amount of plasticizer means more girls are born. If infants and young children are exposed to plasticizers, they will cause shortness of men and premature puberty to women."

Gore was completely shocked and finally said solemnly: "This is a global crisis... Well, I will organize people to determine this matter immediately. I need Dahua Environmental Protection's testing information..."

He held Su Cheng's hand and said, "If this is confirmed, Dahua Environmental Protection will become famous. You have done a good thing."

Sucheng expressed his gratitude and said: "You can make a call to resolve this global crisis."

Gore's excited pants were about to fall off.

Su Cheng knew that the matter was confirmed just by looking at his expression.

If Su Cheng had not participated, the famous plasticizer incident in later generations was discovered by a female detector who cared about his son's food safety until 2011. By then, plasticizers had been illegally added for 30 years. According to scholars' research reports, in addition to being highly carcinogenic, the worst and impressive thing about plasticizers is sexual development disorders. Considering that there are so many foods added with plasticizers and so widely sold, it may be possible to understand why more and more handsome men in the world are.

Gore shook hands with Sucheng again, then sent him out, and entered a hurry to work.

Su Cheng stretched, separated from Mickey, and went to Washington to have a tour.

Shu Lan has graduated from school and is in her internship and has time to hang out with him.

It took Gore only half a day to confirm the authenticity of the inspection by Dahua Environmental Protection Organization, and immediately joined forces with Dahua Environmental Protection to hold a press conference, which was a decisive move.

The senators and members of the United States are not fighting alone. In order to let 100 senators and 435 senators understand and confirm a large number of special work, a huge team of assistants on Capitol Hill serves them. Among them, tens of thousands of people serve senators, with an average of 100 assistants per senator. Some of them are personal assistants of senators, some serve committees composed of senators, some serve permanent institutions, or assistants.

In cases like plasticizer, Gore naturally had full firepower. Not only his assistants were sent out, but several committees were not idle either. He didn't want to share this "secret" with others, otherwise he could do it if he dispatched thousands of people.

That night, news about plasticizers spread around the world at a rate exceeding the tsunami.

When Wang Keling saw this news, he was stunned for a moment and did not realize anything.

It was not until he saw Gore's appeal: "Please severe punishment from the Taiwan authorities and raise environmental protection standards." He was suddenly stunned.

Formosa Plastics' environmental standards have always been the lowest in the island. That is to say, as long as the Taiwan authorities raise environmental standards, Formosa Plastics may fail to meet the standards in all respects.

This lowest-cost business method comes from Wang Yongqing's management philosophy. He has a famous fish bone theory, which was regarded as a classic by Chinese township entrepreneurs until the 21st century: one fish should be eaten more, the fish bones and fish meat should be analyzed, the constituent elements of various affairs should be constantly decomposed, and all factors that affect cost should be found. Each drop of oil and every gram of raw materials should be carefully calculated to achieve the specific, distinct and detailed like the fish bones. Then, each fish bone should be "slimmed" and strive to achieve the greatest economic benefits with a very small amount of investment.

Wang Yongqing, known as the god of management, relied on the accumulation of traditional Chinese people to create the Formosa Plastic Kingdom.

Few people have expected whether the environment and workers' safety can be truly guaranteed when the equipment in this kingdom becomes outdated and only exceeds the standard environmental protection conditions.

Regardless of whether Formosa Plastics builds its own Haicang plan, Sucheng will try its best to improve its standards.

…(To be continued...)
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