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Minitrue: Focus on Fake News in Food Scandal

Posted by Sophie Beach | Mar 20, 2019

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...

‘Cadmium Rice’: China’s Latest Food Scandal

Posted by Josh Rudolph | May 21, 2013

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...

Confucius on Food Scandals & Mozi on Foreign Policy

Posted by Samuel Wade | Jun 17, 2011

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...

Officials in China at Odds Over Food Scandal

Posted by Sophie Beach | Mar 2, 2010

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...

Water-Injected Meat: The Next Chinese Food Scandal?

Posted by Jenny Leung | Mar 14, 2009

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...

China’s Contaminated Food Scandal Widens

Posted by Sophie Beach | Oct 31, 2008

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...

China Worried Food Scandal Could Hurt Olympics

Posted by Ian Sherr | Feb 8, 2008

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...