By Michael Krieger: It seems as if those engaged in food fraud just want to keep
escalating their game. First we were horrified by horse meat and fake
tuna, then dog meat,
but now it’s gotten worse. Much worse. In China, the food fraudsters
have taken things to an entirely new level by mixing rat, fox and mink
meat with gelatin additives and passing it off as lamb. You may want to
avoid that food cart next time you’re in Shanghai. From The Washington Post:
BEIJING — Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country’s latest food safety scandal.
The Ministry of Public Security released results of a
three-month crackdown on food safety violators, saying in a statement
that authorities investigated more than 380 cases and arrested 904
suspects.
Among those arrested were 63 people who allegedly ran an operation in Shanghai and the coastal city of Wuxi that bought fox, mink, rat and other meat that had not been tested for quality and safety, processed it with additives like gelatin and passed it off as lamb.
The announcement came as China’s top court on Friday 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.
The supreme court said 2,088 people have been prosecuted in
2010-2012 in 1,533 food safety cases. It said the number of such cases
has grown exponentially in the past several years. For example, Chinese
courts prosecuted 861 cases of poisonous food in 2012, compared to 80
cases in 2010.
“We cannot tolerate it any longer. We must punish the criminals severely, or we cannot answer to our people,” Pei said.
Punish criminals? I don’t undertand. In the U.S. we’d probably promote them to top positions at the FDA.
Full article here.
In Liberty,
Mike
Source
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BEIJING — Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country’s latest food safety scandal.
Among those arrested were 63 people who allegedly ran an operation in Shanghai and the coastal city of Wuxi that bought fox, mink, rat and other meat that had not been tested for quality and safety, processed it with additives like gelatin and passed it off as lamb.
The announcement came as China’s top court on Friday 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.
The supreme court said 2,088 people have been prosecuted in
2010-2012 in 1,533 food safety cases. It said the number of such cases
has grown exponentially in the past several years. For example, Chinese
courts prosecuted 861 cases of poisonous food in 2012, compared to 80
cases in 2010.“We cannot tolerate it any longer. We must punish the criminals severely, or we cannot answer to our people,” Pei said.
Punish criminals? I don’t undertand. In the U.S. we’d probably promote them to top positions at the FDA.
Full article here.
In Liberty,
Mike
Source
banzai7
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