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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8426)	12/4/2006 2:18:07 PM
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YUM "Sewage in lard" prompts new China health scare Sun Dec 3, 10:38 PM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - China has arrested the manager of a factory which used grease from swill, sewage and recycled industrial oil to make edible lard, a Chinese newspaper said on Monday in the latest health scare to hit the country. ADVERTISEMENT Health officials also detected "toxic pesticide" in lard produced by the Fanchang Grease Factory in Taizhou, in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, the Shanghai Daily said. "They wholesaled the product to retailers across the country, and the retailers sold it to clients, including hotels and restaurants," the paper said. Since opening in September 2005, the plant had bought more than 170 metric tons of recycled grease to produce an average of six metric tons of lard daily. A night-time raid found 37,600 kg of raw materials and 5,300 kg of lard, the paper said. Billions of dollars worth of counterfeit and substandard goods, from fake liquor to luxury handbags, are produced every year in China. In 2004, a major health scandal erupted when China revealed that at least 13 babies had died from malnutrition in the country's impoverished eastern province of Anhui after being fed fake baby milk powder. Last week, several fish farms in eastern Shandong province breeding turbot, a popular type of flatfish, were fined and ordered to suspend sales after traces of cancer-causing chemicals including malachite green were detected in samples. Authorities in several cities last month found Sudan IV, a cancer-causing industrial dye, in "red-yolk" duck eggs sold to poultry farmers who had mixed it with feed. Red yolks are regarded as a sign of extra nutrition, thus making them more expensive.