Posted on 08/15/2006 11:02:40 AM PDT by eraser2005
Abstract
Recent reports of problem foods in Mainland China have raised global concerns about the safety of Chinese food products. Drawing on reliable data extracted from Chinese newspapers, magazines and the Internet, this report, the second in the series, takes a closer look at the hair-made soy sauce, a common kitchen-accessory for marinating and seasoning foods. It seeks to inform the scientific and medical communities regarding the potential short- and long-term epidemic consequences of consuming such soy sauce
(Excerpt) Read more at ispub.com ...
The technicians admitted that they would not consume the human-hair soy sauce because the dirty and unhygienic hair was used to make amino acid syrup ( 1, 2 ). A quality monitoring staff also revealed that though the hair may not be toxic itself, it definitely consisted of bacteria and other micro-organisms ( 1 ).
See main link for foot notes. I'm too grossed out to update all the html
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijto/vol2n1/soy.xml
DO NOT TRUST CHINESE FOOD PRODUCTS!
Read labels for country of origin! I do. For everything. Chinese does not make it into the shopping cart. Japanese I trust, Korean - mostly, Taiwanese - almost Chinese.
That includes all that inexpensive garlic and fish seen in stores. There is NO way to tell how it was produced.
Why did I click on this thread? Why?
"I knew the comments on this would be priceless! :)"
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Let's listen in on two guys on lunch break at the local Chinese restaurant...
Joe Bob (digging in on some chow mein):
"Billy Ray, toss me that new soy sauce if you ain't gonna try it."
Billy Ray (sliding Joe Bob the soy sauce):
"Hir, sute yourself"
The journalists then found the amino acid syrup manufacturer (a bioengineering company) in Hubei province. When asking how the amino acid syrup (or powder) was generated, the manufacturer replied that the powder was generated from human hair. Because the human hair was gathered from salon, barbershop and hospitals around the country, it was unhygienic and mixed with condom, used hospital cottons, used menstrual cycle pad, used syringe, etc.
OMG, I'm forever done with any kind of soy sauce.
Blech, blech, yuck, ick...
"Shades of Fish Sauce! (You don't wanna know, believe me.)"
Properly made fish sauce is terrific. You might not like the process used to make it, but it sure tastes good.
By the way, did you know that Worchestershire sauce is actually a fermented fish sauce? The fish are anchovies. Read the label.
As a true Aggie would say:
"Gag-a-maggot-on-a-gut-truck!"
Going to show this to "Wife Unit"...She loves...loved chinese food...
I can't tell you how woozy I feel.
I better go straighten myself out before I end up in Chinese food.
Your screenname is highly appropriate for this thread.
Gack!
Gack!
Thank you!
YUK!! ;^)
ok... hate to do this to you, but forwarned is forarmed.
I kinda doubt too much of this particular variety of "soy" sauce made it over here, but it makes me rather glad I'm a bit of a snob where soy sauce is concerned and don't like stuff with ingredients I don't recognize right off...
UGGGHHH.. That just made me throw the rest of my lunch away.
I'm telling you, we need to go to a restaurant and dial Gunner's phone.
I wonder how much Phil donated.....
Da^^it I had Mongolean Beef for lunch. Mmmmmm....
I think i'll stick to meat pies.
Nothing grosses me out. NOTHING.
Until this.
I agree,
just a few sentences and I was gagging.
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