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Bubble tea in Shenzhen found with excessive additives

Posted: 10/29/2013 10:30 am

There are so many unsafe things to eat in China these days, your best bet might just be fasting. Or popping across the border to Hong Kong to buy your groceries.

The latest is Taiwanese bubble tea. It turns out the chewy little pearls in the bubble tea in Shenzhen have excessive additives.

The Shenzhen Daily reports:

The city checked 14 batches of the chewy tapioca balls across the city, and six of the batches had additive problems, said Chen Jianming, the administration’s vice head.

Four of the six faulty batches were found to contain phenylformic acid, sorbic acid and saccharin sodium, which are not allowed to be added into drinks. Two batches were found to contain excessive amounts of methylacetopyranone.

Sounds delicious, doesn’t it?

We should probably do a brief recap of what you can’t eat in the PRD:

 

Bon appétit.

Haohao

Guangzhou restaurants busted for adding addictive poppy powder to food

Posted: 10/15/2013 10:00 am

If food at some Guangzhou restaurants tastes so good you can’t wait to go back, this could be why.  It turns out a couple of restaurants in the City of Five Rams have been adding poppy powder – which is highly addictive, and illegal – to their dishes.

Want China Times reported:

The irregularity was first uncovered by the Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration in June last year. During a spot check of 70 of the city’s restaurants, inspection officials found that two of the restaurants were using the addictive poppy powder in marinade bags.

The kitchen staff at the two restaurants initially told inspection officials that they had no idea what was in the bags, and claimed that were delivered in that way by suppliers. However, they later reneged and admitted that the bags contained poppy powder.

Both restaurants were fined RMB50,000.

Despite the highly addictive nature of poppy powder, consuming it may be among the least bad things you might eat at Guangzhou restaurants.

(h/t Shanghaiist)

Haohao
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