Hundreds captured for illegal additive
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China.org.cn, China Daily, August 30, 2011
Nearly 1,000 people have been arrested in a nationwide crackdown on the manufacture and sales of a banned and hazardous food additive in the past six months.
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The supervision department officials check food additive use in moon cake production in Dezhou City, Shandong Province on August 29, 2011. Nearly 1,000 people have been arrested in a nationwide crackdown on the manufacture and sales of a banned and hazardous food additive in the past six months. |
Police seized 2.5 tons of clenbuterol, a toxic chemical that is illegally used in animal feed to make pigs leaner, and six underground laboratories were shut down during the crackdown, which broke criminal rings in many cities, including Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, and Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province.
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Despite the success of the crackdown, the ministry said it will continue to motivate all its branches, especially police substations at the grassroots level, to monitor any resurgence in the production and sales of clenbuterol in their duty areas, and share information with each other to promote early detection and investigation.
The police authority also wants the public to join the battle against illegal additives.
"We hope people can report such criminal activities to us actively," the ministry said in its online statement.
The ministry said the clenbuterol campaign was part of an attempt to curb "the momentum of criminal activities" and to safeguard people's food safety.
"The abuse of food additives remains one of the noticeable problems of food security," Li Yuanping, spokesman of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told a news conference on Monday.
