[/caption]Seizures of large quantities of milk powder contaminated with melamine from China warehouse is the latest in a long series of food scandals. Here are 10 others:
Melamine Milk Scandal
In 2008, six babies have died and 300,000 became ill after consuming infant formula contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine. The scandal is hushed up for several months to avoid embarrassment during the Olympics, causing outrage in China and destroy public confidence in the government and its ability to regulate the food industry.
Toxic sprouts
Police in the northeastern city of Shenyang seized 40 tons of bean sprouts in April 2011. Contaminated vegetables have been using sodium nitrate and urea, as well as antibiotics and hormones of plants, called 6-benziladenin. Chemicals used to make them grow faster and look 'shine' in the kiosk market. 12 people arrested.
Pesticides In Long Beans
More than 3.5 tonnes of long kancang isocarbophos contaminated with banned pesticides. Long bean is destroyed when found on sale in the central city of Wuhan in March 2010. He was brought in from the southern city of Sanya, and other charges of attempted cover-up after the bureau of agricultural law enforcement authorities said Sanya Wuhan 'unfit' to publish this case.
Contaminated Milk Protein Leather-hydrolyzate
In February 2011 came another report milk contamination scandal, this time using a leather-protein hydrolyzate, such as melamine, used to increase milk protein content, thus increasing its value. The problem has been detected early March 2009 according to the official newspaper China Daily. China announced this month had already closed nearly half of the milk companies in an effort to clean up the dairy industry.
Aluminum buns
After it was reported that many Chinese rice contaminated with heavy metals, the health office in Shenzhen, southern China tested 696 samples of foods made from flour, including cakes and steamed bread (buns). Nearly a third (28%) were found to have levels above the national standard aluminum, Shenzhen Standard media reported. Contamination was unknown because excessive use of baking powder that contains metal.
Pork 'Avatar'
Reports and photographs emerged last month's show pork that shine blue, scary when the kitchen light is switched off. Internet users call it meat 'Avatar' and remains skeptical despite reassurances from the Ministry of Health Supervision Shanghai who said pork had been contaminated by certain bacteria and is still safe to eat if cooked properly.
Peramping Powder Pig
China has long been fought in the war in the use of clenbuterol steroids for pork production. Known as the 'powder peramping meat,' to reduce levels of fat pork Dalan. The content of this powder can cause dizziness, palpitations, diarrhea and excessive sweating. The most recent case occurred last March at a pork producer listed on the stock market, but China has recognized 18 outbreaks of food poisoning related clenbuterol between 1998 and 2007, according to a report in the Shanghai Food Safety site.
Toxic Food Box
In April 2010 more than 7 million poisonous food boxes seized in the eastern province of Jiangxi. Although banned in 1999, boxes of food from the cork is still used widely in China. This box will release toxins when heated by the food. These chemicals have the potential to damage liver, kidneys and reproductive organs.
Cooking Oil Sewer
Undercover investigation by a professor from Wuhan Polytechnic University in March 2010 estimates that one in 10 Chinese food cooked using recycled oil, often obtained from the water channel under the restaurant. Food and Drug Control Agency issued a State of national emergency orders investigation into oil scandal 'gutter', more and destroy public trust in the food industry.
Cadmium Rice
Research published in February stated that up to 10 percent of rice sold in China contaminated with heavy metals, including cadmium. Data collected by the Nanjing Agricultural University found that the problem most acute in the southern provinces, where in some areas 60 percent of the sample had been contaminated, some up to five times threshold