Rice noodles made with rotten grain and potentially carcinogenic additives are being sold in south China in the country's latest food safety scare, state media has reported.
Up to 50 factories in south China's Dongguan city near Hong Kong are producing about 500,000 kilograms of tainted rice noodles a day using stale and mouldy grain, the Beijing Youth Daily said.
The cost-conscious producers were bleaching the rotting rice and using additives including sulphur dioxide and other substances that could cause cancer to stretch half a kilogram of grain into 1.3 kilograms of noodles, it said.
In Dongguan, a random inspection of 35 rice noodle factories in early December revealed that only five of them were making products that were up to standard, the report said
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