After we posted three nice posts about Zongzi from China, now a bad one:
A famous food company in Anhui Province has been ordered to halt production after it was caught re-wrapping and selling a popular festival snack that was two years old, authorities said yesterday.Regulators in the east China province also ordered a recall of all the "zongzi" made by Wan Maomao Frozen Food Co, as it is difficult to tell the old from the new.
The company's sales of the sticky-rice snack are "considerable," Xinhua news agency reported, without specifying a figure.
In addition to more than two tons of expired "zongzi" discovered at the company in a weekend raid, authorities retrieved 1.4 tons of the product that had been sold across the province. There was no evidence that any had made its way out of Anhui.
The problem product was discovered in the Wan Maomao workshop by the Administration of Quality and Technical Supervision in Hefei, Anhui's capital, after receiving a tip.
Authorities found a large number of old "zongzi" had been ripped out of the original bamboo leaves and rewrapped with fresh leaves. The original packaging showed it was produced in 2005.
