Because of criminally lax food and drug regulations, Chinese consumers risk disease or poisoning, even when doing something as simple as buying cooking oil from a supermarket or getting a vaccination for their kids.
Many restaurants and food producers in China lace their products with dangerous chemicals, as described in the following examples, from carcinogenic formaldehyde in seafood to addictive opiates in noodles.
Baking Powder—With Heavy Metal
Steamed buns are a typical feature in Chinese cuisine, and are particularly tasty right out of the pot, when they are fresh and fluffy.
To keep the buns from taking on a cardboard-like staleness, a restaurant in inland China’s Shaanxi Province found an answer in a special baking powder that could preserve the desired fluffy texture cheaply.
