By Star Chang, posted Feb 7, 2012 at 9:35 AM, 2,911 views,

1,400 Tons of Fake Salt Being Sold in China for Two Years (Video)

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The food safety in China seems to be getting worse. Suspects have been arrested by police in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui for manufacturing and selling 1,400 tons of fake salt to consumer markets between 2009 and 2011. And the best part is, there are no current laws to regulate the trafficking of fake salt in China …


The suspects began a business in neighboring Jiangsu province, selling fake cooking salt that they manufactured from agricultural residues. They have purchased agricultural waste from a chemical engineering factory for 10 yuan (US$1.58) per kilogram and sold the salt to wholesalers for almost 400 yuan (US$63) per kilogram after processing. The factory didn’t know they were using the waste to produce fake edible salt.

The fake salt has been found to contain 55 milligrams per kilogram of the herbicide glyphosate, a chemical used in weedkiller, which is a much higher than the safety standards used by the United States and the European Union, which only allow up to 20 milligrams per kilo. The chemical in the salt is harmful if ingested in a large amount. It can trigger diarrhea, digestive tract problems and impair cardiovascular function.

The workplace for making the fake salt.

SOURCE: CHINA DAILY, NTD

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  • shenmeniao

    “It can trigger diarrhea, digestive tract problems and impair cardiovascular function.”
    most food in china is a coin flip away from being in this category.

  • Hoboo

    Where is that song (locusts) ?

    China is the epitome of “sh*t” culture.

    • Max

      It’s not the culture it’s the government you dipsh!t. Go back to school and learn something b4 you open your mouth.

      • Supertechmacpc

        Max, unfortunately it’s both culture and government. Decades of Chinese communist indoctrination has left a literal moral vacuum in society. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in China generally, it’s how fast I can get rich without getting caught.

      • Yannis Vatis

        Unfortunately it is the culture too which has been heavily influenced by the government. I’ve been asking Chinese people for 2 years that I’ve been living here how they can accept the lack of courtesy from others (cutting in line, spitting, etc.) the answer is almost always, without fail, “that’s just our culture”. It’s become their go-to excuse for all the crap that happens in this part of the world. The real Chinese culture died a long time ago. What is left is bitter disappointment and a country who’s people are too self-centered to do anything.

  • http://twitter.com/Mobileer Mobileer

    Something has to be wrong with the prices
    “400 yuan (US$63) per kilogram after processing”
    can’t be correct I don’t think you can find salt that expensive anywhere even retail!

    • StarChang

       The video news said it should be calculate in pounds …

  • http://www.facebook.com/veksler David Veksler

    It sounds like the salt was real, it just had low levels of pecticides from industrial run-off.

  • http://twitter.com/Lexilium Aleksandar Jaredic

    Fake salt sold in China