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A resourceful Chinese company got in trouble for brewing soy sauce out of human hair.
China Central Television (CCTV), the state television station, first raised public worries over the quality of domestic soy sauce by uncovering a substandard workshop in central China's Hubei Province, where piles of waste human hair were found. The hairs were treated in special containers to distill amino acid, the most common substance contained in soybean sauce.
Human hair is rich in protein content, just like soybean, wheat and bran, the conventional and legally accepted raw ingredients for the production of soy sauce.
Chinese company makes soy sauce from human hair - Boing Boing
A new wave of food scandals has erupted in China. Melamine-laced dairy products have resurfaced; pork tainted with toxic clenbuterol, as well as millions of tons of diseased carcasses of chickens and pigs, continue to be sold as food.
Since this is just the latest Chinese food scandal—previous ones have involved soy protein, gluten, glycerin, fish, candy, ginger and garlic—you should be alarmed. The food labeling laws allow for Chinese ingredients to be used in processed foods without being labeled as being of Chinese origin.
chinese food scandals « Giving Up Control
China Central Television (CCTV), the state television station, first raised public worries over the quality of domestic soy sauce by uncovering a substandard workshop in central China's Hubei Province, where piles of waste human hair were found. The hairs were treated in special containers to distill amino acid, the most common substance contained in soybean sauce.
Human hair is rich in protein content, just like soybean, wheat and bran, the conventional and legally accepted raw ingredients for the production of soy sauce.
Chinese company makes soy sauce from human hair - Boing Boing
A new wave of food scandals has erupted in China. Melamine-laced dairy products have resurfaced; pork tainted with toxic clenbuterol, as well as millions of tons of diseased carcasses of chickens and pigs, continue to be sold as food.
Since this is just the latest Chinese food scandal—previous ones have involved soy protein, gluten, glycerin, fish, candy, ginger and garlic—you should be alarmed. The food labeling laws allow for Chinese ingredients to be used in processed foods without being labeled as being of Chinese origin.
chinese food scandals « Giving Up Control