On November 12, 2006, some "red salted duck eggs" produced by an egg processing factory in Hebei Province were found to contain Sudan Red IV in Beijing. 14th, the Beijing Food Office detected six kinds of salted duck eggs containing Sudan Red, and Sudan Red-containing salted duck eggs have been found one after another in Dalian and other places. The "red heart" salted duck eggs have also been found in Dalian and other places.
After investigation, these claimed that the wild duck under the "red" duck eggs, is in the duck feed mixed with sultanas, only to appear "red".
"Red heart" egg problem in the source of agricultural production - duck feeding. The emergence of "red" duck eggs exposed the farmers' business problems, while the lack of a unified market access standards for egg products. The relevant quality inspection departments on the "red" eggs and other agricultural products quality sampling loopholes, production management is missing. And the Food Sanitation Law can not cover the whole process of food production and marketing, leaving many gaps in law enforcement.
In 2006, the National Standardization Management Committee held a "safe quality of agricultural products and pollution-free egg safety requirements", "safe quality of agricultural products and pollution-free egg environmental requirements" national standards will be validated, the first national standards for egg products introduced.
Meanwhile, the Beijing Food Office is considering developing a market access system for egg products, including the need to provide valid certificates of origin and test reports before they can be marketed.
Multiple administrations are a challenge in food safety supervision. Previously, food safety management was handled by the Ministry of Agriculture for planting, the Ministry of Light Industry for processing and the Ministry of Domestic Trade for marketing. After the institutional reform, the Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for planting, the State Food and Drug Administration will focus on health food approval, the Ministry of Health mainly for the catering industry to carry out inspections, the Ministry of Commerce, as well as the State General Administration of Quality Supervision and Administration of Industry and Commerce, Customs, public security and other departments are involved in food management.
In 2008, several milk powders were found to contain melamine, which can cause reproductive and urinary damage in infants with long-term intake.
In 2010, investigations alleged that many restaurants used gutter oil, with the media claiming that as much as 2 million to 3 million tons of gutter oil was returned to the dinner table on the mainland each year.
On April 7, 2010, a food additive company in Rugao, Jiangsu province, was found to have added lime powder to the production of flour whitening agent, with a content of up to 30 percent. The Ministry of Health issued an announcement that since May 1, 2011, the production and addition of these two substances to flour is prohibited.
August 26, 2010. Sampling in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, explodes with problematic silverfish containing malachite green and formaldehyde.
On Dec. 16, 2010, Shenyang Evening News reported that bulk navel oranges sold at the Sanjingjie store of China Resources Vanguard Supermarket were suspected of containing Sudan red.
On March 15, 2011, mainland media exposed lean pork.
On March 18, media in Chongqing reported that some merchants had added formalin to beef blood to make the blood wang look better, and that the daily output of such blood wang reached 4,000 pounds.
On April 9, a customer in Jiangyin purchased 12 swordfish at a food court in the city and found that three of them were laced with unidentified substances when they were being processed, which were identified as mercury by the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau's physical evidence department. Injection of mercury so that the knife fish to increase the weight, but also can make the dead knife fish look more shiny.
April 12, Shanghai, a number of supermarkets have been exposed to years of sales of stained buns． Subsequently, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and Guangzhou, Guangdong Province have also been found to produce or sell dyed steamed bread.
April 15, a number of places exposed to the incident of beef paste, which can turn pork into relatively much more expensive beef. Later, Foshan, Guangdong Province, broke the news that some merchants had added borax and other toxic and harmful raw materials to pork to counterfeit beef, involving more than 16,000 kilograms of fake beef.
On April 15, law enforcement officers from the Wanshouqiao Industrial and Commercial Office in Yichang City, Hubei Province, seized two dens of sulfur-smoked "poisonous ginger" in a large vegetable wholesale market under their jurisdiction, and nearly 1,000 kilograms of "poisonous ginger" were seized at the scene.
April 17, Shenyang for three consecutive days **** seized 40 tons of poisonous bean sprouts, containing a variety of prohibited additives, including carcinogenic substances, and animal-specific drugs.
On April 18, Guangzhou bakery chain "Sweetheart Guest" was exposed by employees bakery recovery of expired bread, the daily recovery of expired bread "recombination" and then sold to consumers.