Food Safety

TALKING POINTS

Talking points

24 May 2013

Bids open for residential sites

5:20AM

Guangzhou reveals details on cadmium tainting as public pressure mounts

19 May 2013

Guangzhou's food-safety authorities have revealed some details about the sale of rice and rice noodles contaminated with cadmium, a heavy metal, in the face of enormous public pressure.

10:22AM

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High cadmium levels found in Guangzhou rice

18 May 2013

Nearly half the rice and rice products on sale in Guangzhou contain too much cadmium, a toxin and carcinogen that can damage the kidneys, a three-month investigation by the city's food safety...

10:20AM

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Centuries-old Chinese medicine tastes sweet and bitter after Hong Kong IPO

9 May 2013

The more than 300-year-old Chinese medicine brand Tong Ren Tang is facing a hit to its reputation, just a day after its flagship drug manufacturing and distribution unit made a stellar debut on...

7:43AM

Mutton scandal gives Yum new China headache

7 May 2013

Global fast food giant Yum is getting a new round of indigestion in its most profitable market from a new food safety scandal that gets my personal award for "grossest" scandal of the year.

4:24PM

Ginger farmers using toxic pesticide

6 May 2013

Farmers in Shandong have been overusing an illegal and highly toxic pesticide to grow ginger for years on end, adding yet another concern to the country’s growing list of food scandals.

4:21PM

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Shanghai cooked food stores shut down over fake mutton

Eight cooked food stores and a hotpot restaurant in Shanghai were ordered to shut for selling mutton mixed with rat, fox, mink, duck and pork. Shanghai's food safety office said it raided wet...

10:45AM

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Sale of 40 tonnes of diseased pork sparks police inquiry

Police in Nanjing county, Zhangzhou, detained a 44-year-old woman surnamed Lin and a 33-year-old man, busting an illegal operation in which 40 tonnes of pork was allegedly sold in three months,...

4:24PM

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Chinese editorials flay study that showed domestic baby formula safe

Many mainlanders saw the recent announcement by the China Dairy Industry Association that domestic milk powder is better than imported products as nothing more than propaganda.

4:24PM

FOOD SAFETY

Rat meat sold as lamb in latest China food scandal

A Jiangsu gang was caught passing off rat, fox and mink meat as mutton, just one of hundreds of cases of meat-related offences uncovered by the Ministry of Public Security recently.

4:24PM

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China beefs up law to fight food safety scandals

China’s top court has issued guidelines calling for harsher punishment for making and selling unsafe food products in the latest response to tainted food scandals that have angered the public.

4:23PM

Letters to the Editor, April 5, 2013

It is of great concern to note Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting's Occupy Central proposal, which advocates civil disobedience in case Beijing does not agree with the whims or insecurity of some political...

5:46AM

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