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in the Smithsonianmag and the SCMP. I was just offered one of these the other day. Unless You Like Toxic Chemicals, Skip This Chinese Delicacy Thirty Chinese preserved egg companies are being shut down for using toxic chemicals to expedite the egg-festering process http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/files/2013/06/egg-1024x768.jpg For now, the companies—one of which produces 300,000 tons of preserved eggs per year—are on hiatus as investigations continue. One official remarked that nearly all the preserved egg companies used this chemical, and he doesn’t consider it such a big deal. ”There won’t be a problem if you don’t eat too many of them,” he told South China Morning Post.
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from the Sixth Tone A Stinky Smorgasbord: Museum Showcases China’s Grossest Food Sixth Tone looks at some of the putrid plates to be featured at the new Disgusting Food Museum in Sweden — along with a few other offerings that didn’t make the cut. http://image5.sixthtone.com/image/5/13/813.jpg
