Food

Bogus ‘baozi’ and cancerous White Rabbit?!

I was digging around Shanghaiist today and found out that the fake bao zi story (about caustic soda-soaked, cardboard-filled buns) was made up! (Read my original post here.)

Kind of creepy how we all thought it could be true…

In other news, my favorite Chinese candy, White Rabbit, was banned in the Philippines after the Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs claimed that the sweet, white, creamy morsels contained traces of formaldehyde–the stuff that you use to embalm dead animals, à la 7th grade science class.

Meanwhile, Guang Sheng Yuan Group, the Shanghai-based company that makes the candies, denied that its most popular brand contains the cancer-causing chemical.

Shanghaiist says it will be keeping a close eye on the unraveling of the investigation. Sounds like everyone’s freaking out about China’s product safety after what went down last week with the execution of Zheng Xiaoyu and other food and drug scandals. But did we really have to scare the children? It’s like saying Halloween candy contains toxic metal, or plastic dolls are filled with hundreds of needles (true story, personally, that happened to me in Beijing in 2nd grade.)

Logo and text via the Guang Sheng Yuan Group company Web site.

“WHITE RABBIT” is one of the most famous brands of Guan Sheng Yuan (Group) Co.,ltd.and belongs to candy product. This product is very larruping that the candy’s surface swathe a very very thin velamen made from sticky rice and it can eat.People always are interesting in the sticky rice velamen.This product’s sales volume is very hot in USA(Kmart,Walgmart).

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