We can also ingest tainted food and get introduction of a high number of bad bacteria that cause an infection.
Beijing, for its part, shuttered three companies at the center of the tainted food row, and executed its food minister for bribery amid worldwide media coverage.
At the moment, when food inspectors investigate a report of tainted food, they place the offending morsel in a sterile container and take it to a lab for analysis.
Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News says the judicial authorities' harsher penalties for selling toxic food, including the death sentence for anyone selling tainted food that causes fatalities, are "better late than never".
But the newspaper warns that social inequality and corruption have "worsened the social atmosphere" and says ordinary people's health and well-being is at threat from pollution, inadequate social welfare, tainted food and other problems.
As rising wealth collides with a string of scandals over tainted food in China, prospective acquirers could also shop for premium processed foods abroad, including olive oil and meat and dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt, Ms. Pan said.
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In the food industry, if we use remote video auditing services to monitor employees working in these high risk areas, view what they are doing while inside, and instantly report any infractions back to management, we can greatly reduce the possibility of tainted food ever reaching a loading dock.
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It has managed to avoid the recent tainted-food scandals emerging from China, thanks to a separate laboratory business it owns, Sino Analytica.
The Real supermarket chain said it had withdrawn TiP frozen lasagne - the latest tainted processed food to figure in a Europe-wide scandal.
Inspectors working for Czech food regulator SVS discovered the tainted products at the IKEA store in the city of Brno, 200 kilometers east of Prague.
The NPC is expected to set up a single food and drug agency following a spate of food safety scandals, including tainted milk and recycled gutter oil, sources tell Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
In the UK, the supermarket giant Tesco, frozen food firm Findus and budget chain Aldi received horsemeat-tainted mince from Comigel, based in northeastern France.
For weeks now, the European food industry has been rocked by a scandal involving meat products tainted with horse and donkey meat.
Though there have been no incidents of sickness or death reported form this latest round of food contamination, at least 70 people became ill after consuming tainted pork in China in February 2009.
The bastards in her belly--tainted by war, pardoned by need, obscured by time--clamored for food.
The food and drug administration will become a fully fledged ministry, following a number of tainted product scandals.
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