Cabbage From China Was Laced With Formaldehyde. U.S. Consumer Trust in Kimchi Now Faces a Test
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Cabbage is one of the basic foods of the Chinese. The excitement is therefore even greater in the country now that the national vegetables have reached the center of a bizarre food scandal.
No Napa Cabbage from Formaldehyde-Used Regions Found in Domestically Imported Kimchi Ingredients The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on the 27th that it collected and tested 82 samples of Chinese-made napa cabbage kimchi, napa cabbage, and pickled napa cabbage currently distributed in Korea, and found no formaldehyde detected in any of them.
Recent reports in China have surfaced alleging that some businesses are treating cabbage with formaldehyde to prolong its shelf life, raising public concerns that the cabbage may be processed into kimchi in South Korea and then imported into Taiwan under the South Korean brand. The Ministry of Finance stated on the 27th that fresh cabbage from China is currently prohibited from import, and Chinese kimchi is also banned from import. If South Kore…
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