Hong Kong-New meat scandal.

HONG KONG.

NEW MEAT SCANDAL.

Health inspectors have raided 22 meat stalls in Hong Kong, after a report of coloring being used on frozen meat, to give it a colorful fresh meat appearance.

Government officers in plain cloths, from the Food and Environment Hygiene Department, collected samples of beef and sausage from several markets.

After testing 290 samples, 15 were found to contain the banned substance.

The beef that originates from the USA, is purchased as Fatty Beef , at low prices, then being sold at locally produced fatty beef.

The coloring in the meat, is alleged to have a harmful effect on humans, if taken in sufficient quantities.

This comes in the wake of the melamine scandal, on the Chinese mainland with melamine being used in dairy products.