June 21st, 2012
From cancer-causing salt to formaldehyde-doused cabbage, a look at China's food-safety mess

A new story from Chinese magazine Caixin highlights the extent of China’s food-safety problems:

In the past five years, the number of public food and drug safety scandals has hit new highs. In 2008, there was the tainted milk scandal. Then, this year’s poisoned medicine capsule case and contaminated cooking oil scandal signaled that there continue to be severe barriers to the adequate protection of public health.

With scandals now regularly uncovered in nearly every sector of food production, the industry as a whole appears to be under siege…

Read the full investigation here. 

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  1. shuraiya reblogged this from curare and added:
    oh my god your comment made me laugh so hard
  2. jimrehs reblogged this from centerforinvestigativereporting and added:
    But let’s not take any lessons from them. Let’s cut our budget for food safety.
  3. curare reblogged this from centerforinvestigativereporting and added:
    Not news to my Taiwanese mom, I can tell you that!
  4. centerforinvestigativereporting posted this
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