For weeks, regulators have been insisting that food in China is safe. In a recent nationwide crackdown, government inspectors closed 180 food plants and uncovered more than 23,000 food safety violations. It turns out that many small food makers have been using industrial chemicals, dyes and other illegal ingredients in making a wide range of food products. Enforcement officials turned up illegal food-making dens, counterfeit bottled water, fake soy sauce, banned food additives and illegal meat processing plants, amounting to rampant fraud in the Chinese food industry.
“These are not isolated cases,” Han Yi, director of the administration’s quality control and inspection department, told state-run news media.
More on this story in The International Herald Tribune article Chinese regulators find rampant abuses in food industry.
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