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Culprit turns self in for feeding chicken with stone powder
By Yang Jian |
May 24, 2011, Tuesday
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THE man who fed 420 live chicken with stone powder to cheat on weight turned himself in yesterday in southwest China, China Youth Daily reported today.
During a highway check on May 9, officers from the Chongqing Administration for Industry and Commerce found a truckload of chickens had been fed barite powder, a weighting additive in drilling mud used in oil/gas exploration. Each chicken was fed about 400 grams of such substance, the report said.
The culprit surnamed Wu, from Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, told the police that he was delivering the chicken to the Chongqing market when his truck was intercepted. He confessed he had sold more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,380) of such chickens since last December.
Wu said he mixed barite powder into a gruel-like chicken feed and fed the chickens with a plastic tube inside a rented house in Guizhou. He said he could earn 17 yuan more from each chicken after force-feeding.
Some consumers in Chongqing complained to the administration in April that they found mysterious substance in live chicken bought from the local markets, China News Service quoted an administration official, Tang Chuan, as saying.
The administration then carried out a check on local markets and highways to find the poultry supplier, the report added.
It is still not known if barite powder is harmful to human health.
During a highway check on May 9, officers from the Chongqing Administration for Industry and Commerce found a truckload of chickens had been fed barite powder, a weighting additive in drilling mud used in oil/gas exploration. Each chicken was fed about 400 grams of such substance, the report said.
The culprit surnamed Wu, from Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, told the police that he was delivering the chicken to the Chongqing market when his truck was intercepted. He confessed he had sold more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,380) of such chickens since last December.
Wu said he mixed barite powder into a gruel-like chicken feed and fed the chickens with a plastic tube inside a rented house in Guizhou. He said he could earn 17 yuan more from each chicken after force-feeding.
Some consumers in Chongqing complained to the administration in April that they found mysterious substance in live chicken bought from the local markets, China News Service quoted an administration official, Tang Chuan, as saying.
The administration then carried out a check on local markets and highways to find the poultry supplier, the report added.
It is still not known if barite powder is harmful to human health.
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