China Has Widespread Food Contamination

China Has Widespread Food Contamination

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A farmer in Hebei, Huang Zhanliang said "I feel there is nothing safe I can eat now because people are in too much of a hurry to make money". Many farmers grow their own food away from the chemically-raised crops they grow for sale.

Using forchlorfenuron, Chinese farmers created a storm of shattered shells, flying pips and wet shrapnel, as watermelons exploded with the growth accelerator.
Forchlorfenuron is known to advance the crop by up to two weeks, as well as enlarging the size and of the fruit and increasing the price by 20%.
Involving 45 hectares of melons and around 20 farms, the damaged un-saleable fruit was fed to pigs and fish.

A survey by researchers at Nanjing Agricultural University revealed that one tenth of China's rice is contaminated with the heavy metal cadmium. Various samples were tainted up to five times the legal limit.

Including dumplings and steamed buns, one third of 696 samples of food containing flour, revealed levels of aluminium above national standards. Heavy use of baking powder containing the metal was believed to be the cause.

While all melamine-laced dairy products have been destroyed or confiscated, they still appear on supermarket shelves. Powdered milk was contaminated with industrial chemical melamine to give the appearance of high protein content, killing six babies with another 300,000 sickened. More milk has been contaminated, this time with leather-hydrolyzed protein, which has the same function as melamine.

Not only were bean sprouts growth meant to increase, they looked 'shinier' in the market place, after they were treated with sodium nitrate and urea, plus antibiotics and the plant hormone 6-benzyladenine.

Yard-long green beans were discovered tainted with the banned pesticide isocarbophos.

There are reports of human birth control chemicals being applied to cucumbers and chickens injected with barite powder so as to improve their weight.
Photos taken of pork taken showed the pork so rich with bacteria that it glowed an eerie iridescent blue in the dark, when the lights were switched off. Authorities claimed the meat given was safe to eat so long as it was well cooked.

After eating pork alleged to have been contaminated with steroid clenbuterol, an additive that makes meat leaner, 91 villagers were admitted in hospital with food poisoning, in central China's Hunan province.

Authorities claim that around 20-30 million diseased pigs enter the Chinese market every year.

A lecturer from Wuhan Polytechnic University believes that 10% of all meals in China are cooked in recycled oil, scrounged from drains beneath restaurants. This is known as sewer oil'.

Numerous toxic container boxes were recently confiscated. The foam boxes, illegal since1999, were still widely in use, releasing toxins when warmed by food.

Other discoveries consist of steamed buns with banned chemical preservatives, arsenic in soy sauce, others buns dyed, detergent borax in pork and bleach in mushrooms.

Many cautious Chinese customers try to purchase imported products, as they feel them to be safer. The Fruit Industry Association of Guangdong province however, said that most imported fruit are grown in China.

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