Is it China again? Following Qingdao’s ‘urine’, ‘vaccine needles’ appeared in pork.
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Amid the ongoing news about food hygiene issues in China, including the Qingdao urine incident and the controversy over lamb ribs and teeth extraction, the latest scandal involves a syringe needle found in pork, raising further concerns about the state of food hygiene in the country.
On the 25th, the Hongxing News in China reported that a thick, approximately 0.6-inch long metal pin was found in a plate of food at the student cafeteria of Shanghai’s prestigious Jiaotong University, sparking controversy.
The university responded to the incident by consulting experts and clarified that the needle was not meant for humans or experiments but was a “vaccine syringe needle for pigs”.
They emphasized that the needle likely broke off inside a piglet while it was being vaccinated.
On the same day, the market supervision and management committee under the jurisdiction of the university has already begun an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.
The university, which had been busy explaining the ‘identity’ of the needle without any apology, belatedly posted an apology on the 25th and deleted the previous explanation.
They promised to make sure that such an issue does not happen again by strengthening the tracking management of food raw materials and quality management. Although the catering company in question has closed, the anxiety among students and parents has increased.
A professional who has worked in the pork distribution business explained that there are three main possibilities for a needle to be found in pork: it could break off when antibiotics or vaccines are administered at a pig farm, it could be introduced when water is injected into the pork to increase its weight, or it could be maliciously inserted by a person.
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Previously in September, a controversy arose when a worker at the Qingdao Beer Factory No. 3 in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China was caught on camera urinating in the malt storage area.
The company suffered a loss with 6.7 billion yuan (approximately 10.6 billion U.S. dollars) of its market value evaporating due to the controversy.
On the 26th, a video of a butcher in Anhui Province, eastern China, using his mouth to prepare lamb spread through social media. In the video, the man used his mouth instead of a tool to tear off the meat from the lamb ribs.
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