Inquiry into fake beef
By Zhang Xuanchen |
April 14, 2011, Thursday
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AUTHORITIES in east China's Anhui Province have launched an investigation over pork and chicken that reportedly was sold as beef.
Beef extract was added to the pork and chicken in order to make it taste like beef so that restaurants and food stores could make more money, Anhui Business News reported yesterday.
Beef costs more than both pork and chicken.
A 500-gram tin of beef extract, which costs 40 yuan (US$6.12), can give 25 kilograms of pork a beef flavor, according to a female vendor in a market in Anhui.
Using the beef extract to turn pork into "beef," restaurant owners could save at least 20 yuan per kilogram.
The vendor also said some food stall owners sometimes use beef extract to make expired meat taste good.
Industrial and Commercial Bureau officials in Hefei City, the provincial capital, said they started investigating after they recently busted an underground workshop specializing in processing chicken into fake beef.
Experts warned that consuming this kind of meat over an extended period of time can lead to cancer.
Authorities warned residents not to buy meat that looked unnaturally red.
Beef extract was added to the pork and chicken in order to make it taste like beef so that restaurants and food stores could make more money, Anhui Business News reported yesterday.
Beef costs more than both pork and chicken.
A 500-gram tin of beef extract, which costs 40 yuan (US$6.12), can give 25 kilograms of pork a beef flavor, according to a female vendor in a market in Anhui.
Using the beef extract to turn pork into "beef," restaurant owners could save at least 20 yuan per kilogram.
The vendor also said some food stall owners sometimes use beef extract to make expired meat taste good.
Industrial and Commercial Bureau officials in Hefei City, the provincial capital, said they started investigating after they recently busted an underground workshop specializing in processing chicken into fake beef.
Experts warned that consuming this kind of meat over an extended period of time can lead to cancer.
Authorities warned residents not to buy meat that looked unnaturally red.
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