Beware!
above Lianyungang
Haizhou Police searched the shop involved (Photo courtesy of Lianyungang
Haizhou Police issued by CCTV), and why are they searching? another example of food venders is uncovered making their food into a 'must have' dish, by adding poppy derivatives to them! this happened in Lianyungang
City, in China’s Jiangsu Province, an anonymous whistle-blower had recently watched public safety warning videos about shady
businessmen lacing their food with poppy husks to make them seem more
appetizing, and wondered if the food stall that made the delicious hot noodles
he loved so much was doing the same thing. As it turned out, they were in fact
adding poppy husk powder to the noodles, to make them literally addictive, as a
way to boost business, the whistle-blower brought a sample of the delicious dish to the police for testing,
and results showed that it contained high levels of papaverine, narcotine, and
other unusual compounds, the Lunan
Police Station cooperated with the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation
Brigade to conduct a full search of the food stall and seized a large pot of
chili oil that was later found to be laced with poppy-derived substances, “The
seasoning chili oil is laced with poppy shell powder, which makes it taste
considerably better. The cold noodle dish as a whole tastes more delicious, but
this food can be addictive and poses a danger to health over the long term,”
officer Zhang Kaoshan told reporters, as it happens this is not an isolated case as can be seen here in 2014 and again here in 2019, as it happens According
to media statistics, from 2020 to April of this year, there were 155 criminal
cases involving the illegal addition of opium poppy to food. Henan, Guizhou,
and Jiangsu were the three top-ranked provinces in terms of number of cases, so if you start to really crave your favourite dish, beware!
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