From Raw Story: Disgusting. Excerpts:
A wave of tainted-food scares has renewed fears in China over continued product-safety problems despite a government promise to clean up the food industry following a deadly 2008 milk scandal.
Tainted pork, toxic milk, dyed buns and other dodgy foods have surfaced in recent weeks, sickening consumers and highlighting the government's apparent inability to oversee China's huge and under-regulated food industry.
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Recent scandals have included pork found on the market so loaded with bacteria that it glowed in the dark, according to a state press report.
Authorities have discovered bean sprouts laced with cancer-causing nitrates, steamed buns with banned chemical preservatives, and rice laced with heavy metals, to name just a few.
And:
"The causes of food safety problems in China are many," Bao Chengsheng, a professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law told AFP.
"One aspect is that China's legal system is incomplete. A lot of regulations are unclear... causing legal loopholes."
He added that underfunded regulators struggle to keep tabs on China's countless small food producers and retailers, setting the stage for lax oversight and corruption.
For example, "pig brokers" often bribe food safety inspectors to turn a blind eye to tainted meat, the state-controlled Global Times said.
Such practices have fueled a market for the carcasses of pigs that have died from disease and whose meat should be destroyed but instead finds its way into the food chain, the paper said.
Tainted meat from the carcasses of between 20 to 30 million diseased pigs enters Chinese markets each year, it said, citing experts.
This is, again, standard practice in countries with little or no regulatory oversight. NON Regulation is the End Point AND Continued Goal of DE-Regulation. Anyone who supports and aggressively touts government food de-regulation is almost assuredly a greed-fueled, vested-interest asshole, shill, crazy, or all three.
A wave of tainted-food scares has renewed fears in China over continued product-safety problems despite a government promise to clean up the food industry following a deadly 2008 milk scandal.
Tainted pork, toxic milk, dyed buns and other dodgy foods have surfaced in recent weeks, sickening consumers and highlighting the government's apparent inability to oversee China's huge and under-regulated food industry.
..
Recent scandals have included pork found on the market so loaded with bacteria that it glowed in the dark, according to a state press report.
Authorities have discovered bean sprouts laced with cancer-causing nitrates, steamed buns with banned chemical preservatives, and rice laced with heavy metals, to name just a few.
And:
"The causes of food safety problems in China are many," Bao Chengsheng, a professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law told AFP.
"One aspect is that China's legal system is incomplete. A lot of regulations are unclear... causing legal loopholes."
He added that underfunded regulators struggle to keep tabs on China's countless small food producers and retailers, setting the stage for lax oversight and corruption.
For example, "pig brokers" often bribe food safety inspectors to turn a blind eye to tainted meat, the state-controlled Global Times said.
Such practices have fueled a market for the carcasses of pigs that have died from disease and whose meat should be destroyed but instead finds its way into the food chain, the paper said.
Tainted meat from the carcasses of between 20 to 30 million diseased pigs enters Chinese markets each year, it said, citing experts.
This is, again, standard practice in countries with little or no regulatory oversight. NON Regulation is the End Point AND Continued Goal of DE-Regulation. Anyone who supports and aggressively touts government food de-regulation is almost assuredly a greed-fueled, vested-interest asshole, shill, crazy, or all three.
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