Category: China food safety

Some Restaurants in China Serve Food Laced With Opium, Despite Years of Crackdown

In China, some restaurants add illegal opium poppy to their food to keep customers coming back. In late August, a restaurant in Jiangsu Province was busted for using poppy shells as seasoning after one of its customers went to the local police station with a sample of a dish he had ordered. The illegal and harmful…


Two Sessions: Seeds, Breeding Animals is Chinese Agriculture’s Key Bottleneck

Chinese top politicians are facing a tough bottleneck issue, how to develop China’s stock of seeds and breeding animals, at the two sessions—the Chinese Communist Party’s most important annual political conference from March 4 to 11. “China faces a similar dilemma in the seeds and breeding animals industries as it does with semiconductor chips,” China…