Food Safety Scare Grows as China Seizes 30,000 Tonnes of Tainted Chicken Feet
Chicken feet are widely used in China as snacksReuters
Chinese police have seized more than 30,000 tonnes of tainted chicken feet and arrested 38 people involved in the sale, as the country's food woes continue to grow.
Chicken feet, one of the favourite snacks in China, are common on restaurant menus in the country. They are often broiled or put in soups.
The food products contaminated with hydrogen peroxide were seized from different provinces in the country, including the eastern province of Zhejiang, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The police have raided and sealed nine factories in the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Guangdong, Xinhua said. They are still hunting for 11 suspects.
The factories used hydrogen peroxide solutions as bleach and antiseptics, making the food item poisonous. Hydrogen peroxide is widely used in manufacturing and medical sectors as a disinfectant and bleach, but its use in food products could be detrimental to health.
The chemical, which causes health problems if consumed, may have been used to give the chicken feet a whiter, cleaner appearance.
Food safety has been a serious issue in China ever since the 2008 milk scandal when infants fell ill or died after consuming tainted milk powder.
Earlier in August, US ketchup maker HJ Heinz Co apologised to Chinese consumers after recalling some infant cereal due to excess levels of lead.
In July, Shanghai Husi Food, owned by US-based food supplier OSI Group LLC, was found to have sold chicken and beef past their expiry date to international food chains including McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut.
Subsequently, KFC and McDonald's said they stopped using products from the supplier, and apologised to Chinese consumers for the issue.
This is not the first time chicken feet are at the centre of a food scandal in China. In July 2013, police seized 20 tonnes of badly expired chicken feet – some of them as old as 46 years – from a warehouse.
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SHENZHEN, Guangdong, April 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 6,000 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat worth 345 million yuan (55.6 million U.S. dollars) was seized in Shenzhen City in the southern province of Guangdong, local authorities announced on Wednesday.
The frozen meat was mainly smuggled from the United States, Brazil and Finland, according to authorities with the Market and Quality Supervision Commission of Shenzhen Municipality.
The smuggled beef, pork and chicken have not been sold on the domestic food market, authorities said.
Law enforcement officers found more than 200 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat at the city's Jiaming cold storage company on March 19, and the rest of the meat was confiscated within 15 days.
According to the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, 72 of 798 meat samples that were randomly inspected did not meet qualifications. Most were found to be expired or contain excessive levels of the feed additive ractopamine.
Smuggling affects domestic food production, contributes to tax evasion, and poses serious food safety hazards, authorities with the committee said.
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A meat market in Beijing. China Daily said smugglers bought cheap meat abroad, shipped it to Hong Kong and on to Vietnam before bringing it to the mainland. Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters
Almost half a billion dollars worth of smuggled frozen meat – some of it rotting and more than 40 years old – has been seized in China, official media have reported.
More than 100,000 tonnes of chicken wings, beef and pork worth up to 3bn yuan ($483m) were seized in the nationwide crackdown, the state-run China Daily newspaper said.
“It was smelly and I nearly threw up when I opened the door,” said an official from Hunan province, where 800 tonnes were seized.
Two gangs from the central province were among 14 busted across the country in the operation which concluded earlier this month.
A report on the official Hunan propaganda website said the meat seized locally had come from the “border area” with Vietnam, where it was “difficult to control the flow of meat”.
But China Daily report did not specify the frozen meat’s origin and the seizures were not reported on the website of China’s general administration of customs.
Officials from Guangxi, a southern region bordering Vietnam, found some of the meat was “more than 40 years old”, the newspaper said.
That would mean it was packed and stored when the country still under the rule of Communist China’s founding father, Mao Zedong, who died in 1976.
China Daily said smugglers bought cheap meat abroad, shipped it to Hong Kong and on to Vietnam before bringing it to the mainland.
Yang Bo, the deputy director of the anti-smuggling bureau in the Hunanese capital Changsha, said they would often transport the goods in ordinary vehicles, rather than refrigerated ones, to save costs. “So the meat has often thawed out several times before reaching customers,” he said.
Poor food safety is a major concern in China, where standards are lax and scandals involving tainted products are common.
China was rocked by one of its biggest food safety scandals in 2008 when the industrial chemical melamine was found to have been illegally added to dairy products, killing at least six babies and making 300,000 people ill.
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