Domestic Archive — Page 3

55 verified dispatches

Hebei vegetable traders spray carcinogenic formaldehyde on cabbage shipments while regulators look away for fourteenth consecutive year

Wholesalers in Kangbao County openly dipped Chinese cabbage roots in formaldehyde solution before interprovincial transport, a practice first exposed in 2012 that regulators never eliminated. Beijing detained three scapegoats while censors scrubbed every article asking why a known carcinogenic practice survived fourteen years of supposed crackdowns.