The latest food scandal to taint China’s food safety image, the lamb meat scandal, continues to unfold as a gang of criminals dealing in the mislabeling of rat meat as lamb meat were caught. The ministry in charge of food safety released this news as they held a press conference to offer an update on the scandal. So far, they have jailed around 904 suspects and about 380 cases were put under investigation. Among the gang of suspects was a group that controlled the illegal operation in Wuxi, Shanghai. They processed fox, mink and rat meat using additives and sold it as lamb meat to unsuspecting customers.
China has been faced with numerous challenges in the food safety sector including an egg scandal where industrial dye was added to the eggs. Unfortunately, the government has had a hard time trying to revamp the food sector.
On Friday, China’s top court released harsher rules on the punishment of the dealers in illegal food practices as a response to the scandal. The release also included specific acts that would be regarded criminal: for instance, the addition of excessive amounts of chemicals in commercial food products. As it stands, China’s code of punishment does not specifically mention which acts would be criminal; it only generally forbids distribution or processing of poisonous/unsafe food.
Around 2088 people have been prosecuted in cases dealing with food safety between 2010 and 2012. These cases have unfortunately increased over the years. Only 80 cases dealing with poisonous food were brought into court in 2010, as compared to 861 cases just two years later. One of the judges of the Supreme Court finds the situation dismal and causing a lot of harm to consumers. He is of the opinion that the criminal should be severely punished since the public is angry and the court is, after all, answerable to the people.
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