Visibility is obviously much more important to companies that paste their brand all over their products or who show up in media on a regular basis.

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Preliminary investigations suggest that peanut butter and peanut paste manufactured by Peanut Corp. to be used in products like cookies, crackers and ice cream is the probable source of illness.

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After graduating from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Thanedar founded his own lab, working with clients to remove carcinogenic chemicals from their products and to formulate new ones, such as the black paste football players smear under their eyes.

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Lee Kum Sheung of Guangdong Province launched his business in 1888 selling only two products: the mysterious, dark sauce made from oyster juice and a shrimp paste.

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Various kinds of products are offered in this category including liquid and spray-on waxes in addition to the traditional paste variety.

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Since October, the list of products that has entered the country from Japan included soybean curd, dried noodles, boiled mushrooms, radish paste, cooking sauces, roasted seaweed, flavouring extracts, tea bags, wheat flour, food additives and tofu.

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