date:May 31, 2013
e. Still, product safety scandals remain sadly common in China, with instances of cooking oil recycled from restaurant gutters, vegetables grown in industrial wastewater, fake medicine that causes more harm than good. Pigs are fed so many antibiotics that some people who are allergic to penicillin must avoid eating pork in China.
The most recent case involved Hero baby formula, a premium Swiss brand. Its Chinese distributor was caught mixing expired milk powder into cans being prepared for sale