Posted by Rita Mu
Five workers at a Chinese snack manufacturing facility have been arrested for a food safety breach that involved the use of a prohibited chemical to make buns.
According to the Shanghai Daily, the workers at Shangai Shenglu Food Company were detained for using a yellow colouring dye used to make the wheat buns appear like corn buns, which sell at a higher price in China.
An excessive amount of an artificial sweetener was also detected by local food authorities in the making of the buns. According to BakeryandSnack.com, the maximum content of sweetener in Chinese-style cakes and buns is 0.65 grams per kilogram, but the buns contained up to 1.1 grams per kg.
The company’s food producing certificate has been cancelled.
Last week, Food Magazine reported a dairy food safety scare in China, which left three people dead and another 35 ill.
According to reports from state media, the victims were poisoned after drinking milk tainted with nitrate from two dairies in the Gansu Province, in the north-west of the country. The nitrate that was detected in the milk is a chemical used in the curing of meat.
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