China Orders Better Pork Management

[Snazzy]

Source: AP

China Orders Better Pork Management

Aug 7, 4:46 AM (ET)

BEIJING (AP) - China issued an urgent notice Tuesday ordering stronger controls over unscrupulous pork selling practices amid soaring prices for the country's staple meat.

Separately, the Health Ministry reported 3,503 cases of food poisoning nationwide in the second quarter of this year, including 70 deaths. Most fatalities occurred in private homes, with poisonous plants and animals blamed in 37 percent of cases and chemical contaminants in 27.8 percent, the ministry said.

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(uh sorry just cracking up over headline--not that pork management isn't serious business!)

[Double T]

1. This is a good time to become a vegitarian..........

or risk being meat poisoned to death.

[kurth]

2. Even veggies and grains are unsafe

in many parts of China. The Tsingtao brewery imports their own barley from other countries because Chinese barley is so contaminated with pesticides and chemical wastes.