![]() In my memory, the buns made by my grandparents are known to us from ten miles and eight villages. Sell to restaurants and supermarkets than the “good and bulky” ones from the Daxing producers.It can be said that the buns accompanied me when I grew up. One vendor said the standard bean sprouts were harder to Wholesalers told The Beijing News that the treated bean sprouts were in such demand that the retailers they sold to had to arrange purchases a week in advance. Were shorter and smaller,” the Beijing food and drug authorities said. The main part of the sprout was “thicker and longer” than others in the market, with “roots that Whatever their health risks, the treated Daxing bean sprouts were apparently popular with buyers. Cadmium-tainted rice and glow-in-the-dark pork have also been reported. Last year, 63 people were arrested for trying to pass off fox, mink and rat meat as mutton. In 2008, milk powder mixed with melamine was linked to illness in 300,000 infants and to the deaths of six. The crackdown on bean sprouts comes against a backdrop of scandals over unsafe consumables in China in recent years, and government pledges to do more to ensure quality. 1, and they will require all sprout-producing sites to have a government license. To tighten supervision over the production of bean sprouts. In August, the Beijing government circulated draft regulations Has also suffered at times from confusion over whether bean sprouts are “agricultural produce,” since they are not grown in the ground. The Beijing bean sprout industry, which produces about 300 tons a day, is dominated by small workshops and family businesses, many of which operate in an unsanitary environment, The Beijing News said. Last year, the Beijing municipal government issued a health advisory with tips to the public on how to detect unsafe bean sprouts. ![]() In 2011, the discovery of sprouts drenched in hormones,īleaching powder and preservatives in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, resulted in the arrests of 12 people. But they have also been caught up in food safety scares. ![]() The case remains under investigation, but no arrests have been reported.īean sprouts are a popular staple in China, commonly seen in food stalls, supermarkets and restaurants. 2, theĭaxing site has been shut down and three associated vendors have been ordered to halt operations. Since the Beijing food and drug authorities conducted their spot check on Nov. Up to 20 tons of sprouts a day were sold to wholesale dealers in Beijing and in Hebei and Shandong Provinces, the newspaper said. But the chemical can also harm consumers’ health, it said, causing premature puberty, disrupting menstrual cycles The sprouts being produced at the site in Daxing district were treated with high levels of 6-benzyladenine, a plant hormone, to speed up the growth cycle and make them more attractive to buyers, The Beijing News Not for the first time, Chinese inspectors have found bean sprouts tainted with a banned food additive, in this instance in a production center on the southern Credit Stew Milne for The New York Timesīean sprouts are back in the news for all the wrong reasons. ![]() The additive enhanced the appearance and shortened the growing cycle of the bean sprouts, driving up profits.
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