Shanghai uncovered a case of illegal processing and sales of expired dairy products for baking
Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration
On October 24th, Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration uncovered an important case of illegal processing and sales of expired dairy products for baking. In order to reduce losses of expired dairy products for baking from New Zealand, criminal suspects sold 276 tons of expired “Fonterra” dairy products for baking across the country through their controlled companies. Recently, relevant state departments have seized 109.2 tons of involved products, while 166.8 tons of expired products were still missing.Vegetables with excessive pesticides flowed into Wal-Mart and Yonghui, and high priced & competitive vegetables were caught in “pesticide residues”
Greenpeace
On October 24th, Greenpeace issued “Research of pesticide residue in vegetables of 6 supermarkets in 2016”, and the result indicated that positive rates of pesticide residue in vegetables were more than 70% in 6 well-known supermarket chains including Wal-Mart, Carrefour, China Resources Vanguard and Yonghui, etc. In addition, 58% samples with excessive pesticide residues were unexpectedly high priced & competitive vegetables. Greenpeace appealed supermarkets to pay attention to planting safety of the source, control purchasing channels rigorously, and observably increase purchase rate from production bases with reduced pesticide uses.
