I am an expat living in Shenzhen near you and guess what. Despite living here for years I am still alive. Food safety is important but so is a sense of perspective.

If you truly genuinely fear for your safety living in China and eating here you would surely have left. As it is you are obviously trying to make some cheap political points and trying to make some generic anti Chinese points due to your own political or psychological profile

May I also remind you that there have been numerous food safety issues in Japan Italy UK Austria and the US is recent years. Contaminated rice, salmonella, adulterated wine, BSE. posioned chocolate etc etc etc

Food safety is a global concern and the issue is private greed rather than the state. I remind my american friends that profit is behind the contamination and that most of China’s critics are probably people who favour both private enterprise and a lack of regulations

So in conclusion I blame the companies for lack of oversight AND the criminals for adulteration. I do not blame China per se

Thank YOu

With great anticipation I ripped open the new-looking box (lots of gold and glitter) only to find a bottle with broken seal on the cap, and grime on the glass and cap, and more than a hint of butyric acid. The brew might not have been poisonous, but it did not seem like a high-grade alcohol. I smelt a substitution, if not a rat.

With regret, I poured this gift down the drain, and informed my friend, who was sad but not shocked. She took it on the chin, like the scientist she is.

Peter