Chinese ink in noodles
By Jia Feishang |
April 25, 2011, Monday
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NEARLY 20 workshops in Dongguan City, south China's Guangdong Province, have been found producing sweet potato glass noodles with illegal additives, including even Chinese ink, the Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday.
Local authorities said they have launched inspections into all producers of glass noodles.
Corn flour and unlabeled buckets of black liquid which workers were unable to name were found at the workshops.
The crackdown on the workshops came after 5,000 kilograms of dyed sweet potato glass noodles were found at a factory in the province's Zhongshan City on Friday.
Sweet potato glass noodles, often used as a main ingredient of suanlafen and malatang, two popular Sichuan dishes, are dark but transparent and should be made with sweet potato flour.
The Guangdong factories used cheaper corn flour. To create a similar color and taste to real noodles, Chinese ink, paraffin wax, light green dye and other chemicals were added, the newspaper reported.
The owner of the Zhongshan factory surnamed Luo said it cost about 3,000 yuan (US$461) to produce 1 ton of noodles with corn flour and illegal additives.
Genuine noodles, using the proper ingredients, cost more than 5,000 yuan per ton, the newspaper said.
Local authorities said they have launched inspections into all producers of glass noodles.
Corn flour and unlabeled buckets of black liquid which workers were unable to name were found at the workshops.
The crackdown on the workshops came after 5,000 kilograms of dyed sweet potato glass noodles were found at a factory in the province's Zhongshan City on Friday.
Sweet potato glass noodles, often used as a main ingredient of suanlafen and malatang, two popular Sichuan dishes, are dark but transparent and should be made with sweet potato flour.
The Guangdong factories used cheaper corn flour. To create a similar color and taste to real noodles, Chinese ink, paraffin wax, light green dye and other chemicals were added, the newspaper reported.
The owner of the Zhongshan factory surnamed Luo said it cost about 3,000 yuan (US$461) to produce 1 ton of noodles with corn flour and illegal additives.
Genuine noodles, using the proper ingredients, cost more than 5,000 yuan per ton, the newspaper said.
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