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China Shutters Scores of Food Factories

Crackdown spreads to plants using industrial chemicals in edibles

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 27, 2007 12:49 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Chinese government has closed 180 factories that were using dangerous and illegal ingredients, such as formaldehyde, in food products. The relatively large number of plants casts serious doubt on Beijing's insistence that the recent rash of tainted products originated with a small number of... Read full story »

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