Chinese Counterfeit Food

The value of counterfeit electronic components is estimated to total 2 of global sales or 460 billion in 2011.

Chinese counterfeit food.

Avoid buying wine from china. In fact a chinese student has even dedicated a website to expose and document some of the worst abuses. People who don t know much about wine are tricked into buying the expensive looking labels of counterfeit wines that are made from cheap fruit juice. The list below is just ten examples of illegal counterfeit food product from china that may make you think twice about purchasing food from online sources that ship from across the ocean.

Food safety incidents in 2003 poisonous jinhua ham. Unfortunately contaminated food has health consequences. A chinese restaurant association recently confirmed that the viral food scandal involving fake rice is true. A pew research center study last year found 40 percent of chinese view food safety as a very big problem up from 12 percent in 2008.

According to their investigation the fake rice is made up of potatoes and plastic. Some chinese websites have come out with instructional videos on how to make 70 a day by producing and selling fake eggs. We count down china s top 10 weirdest grossest and flat out dangerous fake foods. Cracking down on china s dangerous fake food sector.

Indeed unsafe food is something of a national scandal most chinese are all too aware of. Counterfeit devices have been reverse engineered also called a chinese. In 2003 several small producers of jinhua hams from jinhua zhejiang operated out of season and produced hams during warmer months treating their hams with pesticides to prevent spoilage and insect infestation. Products like phony eggs and fake honey have been rampant in china for years.

Join the china uncensored 50 cent army. Wine is the number one fake food in china as it is reported at least 70 of wines produced in china are fakes. Since the great chinese infant formula debacle of 2008 when 54 000 infants were sickened and six died from milk tainted with melamine there have been even more reports of milk containing. Furthermore it was estimated that three bowls of fake rice amounts to one plastic bag.