China Central Television's undercover investigation report features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns called baozi speaking about how the product was hand over in a neighborhood in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district.
Diced cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in a Beijing neighborhood, state television said. The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's perennial problems with food safety despite continuing government efforts to improve the situation.
Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using cheap ingredients or disguststing substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate.
Diced cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in a Beijing neighborhood, state television said. The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's perennial problems with food safety despite continuing government efforts to improve the situation.
Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using cheap ingredients or disguststing substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate.
