China: After rice, meat, .. turn north draft tainted eggs

Eggs north workshop, a kind of Chinese food is popular, has been found to have excessive levels of toxins allowed. State authorities have launched a nationwide campaign to inspect the manufacturing facilities of the eggs.

    

                                      Eggs sold at a workshop north food stalls in Fengdu, China

The campaign said inspectors began after Chinese media reported that toxic chemicals are used as additives in the north conference eggs. This is the latest in a series of food scandals in the most populous country in the world.

Currently, local governments in China have been required inspection of all egg production facilities and workshops north this product to determine if copper sulphate additives industry has been using illegal or No. This information was news agency Xinhua broadcast yesterday, the source of food Administration and Chinese medicine. The production facility is used to detect the chemical will be permanently closed and contains toxic eggs will be destroyed.

This latest incident increasing pressure on the Chinese government enforce promises made not too long ago on enhancing food safety and pharmaceutical. On 6/6, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang has called a special campaign to reform the food industry and the country's pharmaceutical strict punishment to offenders. He then said Wang Yang, food safety and pharmaceutical products is a matter of political and economic importance.

On 14/6 the past, Chinese authorities have closed 30 manufacturing plants in North Central conference Nanchang, a local of Jiangxi Province. Closings occurred after the Central Television of China (CCTV) coverage of the industry sulphate are used as additives in these facilities.

Quality industrial copper sulphate containing arsenic, lead and cadmium, which can cause kidney damage. Nanchang egg producing 300,000 tons per year, accounting for 15% of the total egg production of the Chinese nation.

The scandal is still ongoing food uncovered in China. Last May, authorities in Guangdong, the most populous province in China, said it had found high levels of toxic cadmium than the permitted level of 40% of the rice samples tested in Guangzhou, capital provincial capital.

Earlier, Chinese police announced the results of a crackdown on dirty food premises to detect the mouse lamb meat for sale on the market, meat of dead animals used for food processing patient .. . In March, public opinion in China and abroad, caused a stir with more than 10,000 dead pig was floated on the Huangpu River.

Eggs north draft also called botanical eggs, egg date cypress, juniper millennium egg date, is a dish originating from China.


In Vietnam, this egg dish made from duck eggs, incubated in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice ... in a long time. In China, people also make this dish from quail eggs and chicken eggs.