Name: Anonymous 2010-04-08 21:00
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-04/08/content_9699679.htm
BEIJING - Recent investigations have found that some bleaching agents widely used in flour production contain as much as 30 percent pulverized lime, a substance that has been linked to health problems.
"Before the Spring Festival this year, the company purchased four trucks' worth of pulverized lime, with each truck carrying 40 tons. An average of 1 jin (0.5 kg) of pulverized lime was added to every 4 jin of the bleaching agent," a local insider was quoted as saying.
The normal price of bleaching agent is 11,000 yuan ($1,611) per ton, but the one from the Yuzhong company was only sold at only 9,000 yuan per ton.
Such news did not surprise some people within the industry. "Their low prices resulted from adding pulverized lime," a salesperson from another bleaching agent company in Henan said upon learning about the other company's lower price.
I am actually amazed by no reported death; you can eat limestone powder and not die???
The melamine milk was exposed only after hundreds of children drinking the milk started dying...
BEIJING - Recent investigations have found that some bleaching agents widely used in flour production contain as much as 30 percent pulverized lime, a substance that has been linked to health problems.
"Before the Spring Festival this year, the company purchased four trucks' worth of pulverized lime, with each truck carrying 40 tons. An average of 1 jin (0.5 kg) of pulverized lime was added to every 4 jin of the bleaching agent," a local insider was quoted as saying.
The normal price of bleaching agent is 11,000 yuan ($1,611) per ton, but the one from the Yuzhong company was only sold at only 9,000 yuan per ton.
Such news did not surprise some people within the industry. "Their low prices resulted from adding pulverized lime," a salesperson from another bleaching agent company in Henan said upon learning about the other company's lower price.
I am actually amazed by no reported death; you can eat limestone powder and not die???
The melamine milk was exposed only after hundreds of children drinking the milk started dying...