China has vowed to stamp out major food safety scandals in three years after fears surfaced that athletes might underperform at the Olympics because they were avoiding eating potentially contaminated meat.
Reports about shocking and often bizarre cases of contamination or adulteration appear in the Chinese media on an almost daily basis.
On Tuesday the Legal Daily newspaper reported that police in northeast China had arrested 6 people behind a £1.3m “fake beer” racket. Police claim the gang used hydrochloric acid and formaldehyde to produce counterfeit beer, including the country’s flagship Tsingtao lager.
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