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‘Cadmium Rice’: China’s Latest Food Scandal
On Saturday and after much public outcry, food safety authorities in the southern province of Guangzhou released the names of rice producers whose products were found to contain cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. The Global Times...
Read MoreConfucius on Food Scandals & Mozi on Foreign Policy
Daniel K Gardner explains his reaction to an Al Jazeera report on beef-flavoured pork sold as real beef: Consequently, a passage in the Analects, one that I had never given much attention to, for the first time jumped off the...
Read MoreOfficials in China at Odds Over Food Scandal
The New York Times reports on a food safety scandal which has caused a rare public tussle between officials in Wuhan and Hainan: Since late February, batches of cowpeas from the lush Sanya area of the island of Hainan have...
Read MoreWater-Injected Meat: The Next Chinese Food Scandal?
The Wall Street Journal’s China Blog reports on another potential food hazard in China that has been going on for decades, as reported in “The Southern Weekend,” a relatively liberal newspaper within...
Read MoreChina’s Contaminated Food Scandal Widens
The International Herald Tribune has the latest on the tainted food crisis, as the government announced that it is widening their investigation into contaminated food: The announcement came after food safety tests this week...
Read MoreChina Worried Food Scandal Could Hurt Olympics
Time.com is running an article summarizing the Chinese “dumpling scandal” over the past week. What’s very interesting, however, is a quote buried near the end of the piece: China’s reaction has also been...
Read MoreChina’s “Whataboutism” After Summer Scandals Parodied
Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school bus attendant in an anti-Japanese outburst; the suicide of a young diver after her coach raped her; the contamination of cooking oil...
Read MoreQuote of the Day: “Why Is Food Safety Oversight So Lax, but Film Censorship So Strict?”
A massive food-safety scandal over the “open industry secret” of using fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or sanitized in between—is still generating a flood of...
Read MoreIntense Online Censorship Seeks to Dampen Scandal Over Unwashed Fuel Tankers Transporting Cooking Oil
A bombshell exposé from state-media outlet Beijing News about the use of fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or disinfected between transports—has snowballed...
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