Counterfeit Alcohol Risks Lives

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A recent surged in fake alcohol is putting lives at risk and costs the UK around $8,619,000 a year in lost revenue. Video courtesy of Sky News.

"It can be extremely dangerous. The abdominal pain can be severe, and they will need medication to get on top of that."

"It can lead to liver failure. It can lead to kidney failure and it can ultimately lead to death."

Police raided three stores in Lincolnshire where they found fake Smirnoff vodka containing the solvent isopropanol - a chemical used as a cleaning fluid.

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Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12456360
http://www.tnp.sg/content/fake-alcohol-sold-all-over-uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-15227238
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Additives Turn Ordinary Rice into Gourmet Wuchang Rice

FAKE screams the headline on 14 July 2010, Tibet Business Daily.

Aromatic rice from Wuchang, Heilongjiang Province, is considered one of the best types of rice in China. In 2009, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine recognized the rice as a local brand, and it sells for considerably more than ordinary rice.

Just 800,000 tons of Wuchang Rice are produced every year, but up to 10 million tons are sold. According to reports by CCTV and Xi'an Evening News reprinted in today's Tibet Business Daily,rice processors in Xi'an have been adding fragrance to ordinary rice and selling it as Wuchang Rice:

Over the course of several days, this reporter visited a number of workshops in and around the Xi'an Grain and Oil Wholesale Market. Although much of the rice used by these processors bore the Wuchang label, it was actually a combination of rice from Hubei, Jiangsu, and the northeast that was masquerading as Heilongjiang Wuchang Rice.

To give the fake rice its aroma, a fragrance was added during processing. This was an open secret. Workers said that half a kilo of fragrance could aromatize ten tons of rice.

Managers in charge of several workshops said that because its price was cheaper than true Wuchang Rice, their rice sold quite well, and was mainly marketed in Henan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu.

Source: Danwei

Related site:
http://epaper.chinatibetnews.com/xzsb/html/2010-07/14/content_196475.htm
http://epaper.chinatibetnews.com/xzsb/html/2010-07/14/content_196489.htm
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-07/14/content_10102476.htm

Chinese FAKE Steam Buns Made of Cardboard Boxes

Million Tons of Swill-cooked Oil Back on Table

Read this before you eat at Chinese restaurants next time. Every year, two to three million tons of swill-cooked dirty oil, soaked with poisonous carcinogens have sneaked back to our dining tables through an underground muck-money network so rampant that it's an open secret in the industry, the China Youth Daily reported Wednesday.

A deadly toxin found in swill-oil is aflatoxin, which is among the most carcinogenic substances ever known and is 100 times more poisonous than the forbidding white arsenic.

The stomach-turning news report quoted a veteran food professor as saying "about one in ten meals" at the country's restaurants is cooked with such dirty oil, a calculation based on China's annual oil consumption of 22.5 million tons.

"You must have eaten the swill oil as well," asserted He Dongping, a professor on oil and toxin with central China's Wuhan Polytechnic University, and also a leading specialist with China's Food and Oil Standardization Administration, who has spent over seven years on an up-hill task -- how to detect and stop the despicable practice.
According to an undercover investigation in Wuhan by nine senior students of professor He, the conspiracy starts at night when swill-fishers hollow out the stinking hogwash from urban sewages, followed by filtrating, heating, subsiding, dividing, and then in the morning comes out the clear-looking "edible" oil for unwitting customers.

Each fisher could fetch up to four barrels at a time, nearly 300 yuan ($44) easy money every night or over 10,000 yuan ($1,465) a month, a lucrative deal too tempting to resist, especially so when the business was in a trouble-free "anarchy" state, said professor He.

The crux of the matter, in He's opinion, has to do with government management rather than detector gadgets, because without lab equipment, the only reliable counter measure for a common customer so far is special test paper, still a far cry from reality, the professor admitted.

"It might take about 10 years before China could get rid of the swill-oil completely," he said.

Source: China Daily

Source: China Daily

Related article: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7424903.html

Discarded Food Waste Slop Recycled Into Cheap Recycled Cooking Oil (Swill Oil)

Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away. Another name is “地沟油”, “gutter oil” or “drainage oil”, because the oil is recovered from the sewer drains coming out of restaurants. Usually, slop or swill is fed to pigs but some unscrupulous people will gather the slop and “recycle” the oil in the slop to sell as cooking oil. Of course, this cooking oil is known as “slop oil” and it is cheaper than fresh cooking oil. Many street vendors who cook snacks (especially fried foods) may use this “slop oil” to save money and keep their costs low.

From NetEase:

Why has harmful slop oil once again flooded Wuhan?

(The bold black-hearted boss even guarantees: “Slop oil is safe to eat”). In March of this year, the internet exposed the Wuhan slop oil public health safety incident (refer to relevant report: “My god! Malicious Wuhan oil factories selling slop oil guarantee safe to eat“). The problem attracted heated discussion and criticism from netizens around the country. The problem also very quickly attracted the Wuhan city government’s attention and the relevant department committed additional people and man hours, conducting a city-wide special rectification operation that lasted over a month and investigated a large amount of slop oil (refer to relevant report: “Wuhan emergency seige of slop oil scenes (follow-up report)“). Yet, right when the people feel they can relax, who would have thought that illegal refining of slop oil would stage a comeback, and flood Wuhan.

At the end of September to beginning of October, 《王浩峰聚焦》["Wang Hao Feng Focus"] once again conducted an undercover investigation, witnessing large numbers of hideouts for the illegal refining of slop oil, with the hideouts on one street in the HongShan district being so numerous as to be innumerable; when it comes to refining slop oil, there are no procedures, and whoever offers the highest price is whoever it will be sold to.

This quickly, the problem has resurged. There are city residents who say this is not strange, is common, and is expected. With the supervision of some supervisory departments these days being “a gust of wind”, a problem is exposed, the leadership [government officials] will make some comments, there will be some on-site investigations, but they will see how the wind blows as they investigate and if no one continues asking and no one is after their positions/jobs, the investigations will stop there. Then, they will continue their own (tenured) lives of officialdom. [They will] let the same old problems wait until the next time they are exposed before saying anything. If they are not exposed, [they] won’t say anything.

Source: Chinasmack

Related article: http://www.shenzhenstuff.com/forum/topics/swill-oil-scoopers?id=1343813%3ATopic%3A3568163&page=1#comments

Vivo City Basement Rubber Band in the Food

Recent bad experience: The rubber band in the cooked food.
Location : Vivo City basement
Stall : Banquet (Malay Nasi Padang shop)
What happened? : I got a rubber band chewed while I was eating my Nasi Padang. Initially I thought that orange color thing was the carrot piece. That day I was eating "sotong" squid too. So I didnt realized it. I only realized it only only when I felt that something was amiss when I am chewing it!

That was a terrible experience. people should also watch out for sandy veggi too when they ordered the cooked spinach at that stall. because they did not wash the veggie properly. Sometimes you could see the roots in your veggies too! I have experienced sandy veggie once from that stall too.

I am not attacking the stall as I liked the food and cooking there. However on and off I got those problem. I should probably complain to the food stall next time.

Other bad experience at eating out:
The dish washer piece found in the food of Old Changkee shop (Raffles Place) and Indian vegetarian stall at Lau Pa Sat.

* Thanks to Alex for sharing

Chicken Wings - Its Dangerous

Avoid eating chicken wings frequently - ladies, especially; a true story...!

A friend of mine recently had a growth in her womb and she underwent an operation to remove the.
The cyst removed was filled with a dark colored blood. She thought that she would be recovered after the surgery but! she was terribly wrong.

A relapse occurred just a few months later. Distressed , she rushed down to her gynecologist for a consultation.

During her consultation, her doctor asked her a question that puzzled her.
He ask if she was a frequent consumer of chicken wings and she replied yes wondering as to how, he knew of her eating habits.
You see, the truth is in this modern day and age; chickens are injected with steroids to accelerate their growth so that the needs of this society can be met.
This need is none other than the need for food.

Chickens that are injected with steroids are usually given the shot at the neck or the wings.
Therefore, it is in these places that the highest concentration of steroids exists.
These steroids have terrifying effects on the body as it accelerates growth..
It has an even more dangerous effect in the presence of female hormones, this leads to women being more prone to the growth of a cyst in the womb. Therefore, I advise the people out there to watch their diets and to lower their frequency of consuming chicken wings!

People, who receive this email, please forward it to your friends and loved ones. I am sure no one wants to see him or her suffer!

Regards,
Sharon How

SingaporeMedical Association
Tel: (65) 6223 1264, ext. 22
Fax: (65) 6224 7827
Email: sharon@sma.org. sg
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