What the local media says

Many mainland food products sold in Hong Kong, such as soy sauce and vinegar, may contain levels of plasticiser up to 400 times above the standard limit set on liquor items. The revelation was made in a microblog post by Gong Yechang, executive director of Green Farm, a Beijing-based food supplier to Hong Kong. Many mainland sauce traders admitted that the Ministry of Health had no specific rules to govern the use of plasticisers in sauces and beverages.