February 4, a bread factory in Conghua, Guangzhou was forced to shut down for using milk powder containing melamine.
February 9, “melamine ice cream” appeared in Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province.
February 26, According to Agricultural Quality Supervision and Testing Center in Jiangmen City, one of the Cucumber samples and one of the cowpea samples from Hainan contained banned pesticide – Isocarbophos.
March 14, the news of certain cabbage contained pesticide residues exceeding 20 times of the national standard broke out in Haikou City.
March 18, media reported that in China, the “sewage oil” that goes back onto the dinner table is about 2-3 million tons each year, and the total oil consumption is about 22.5 million tons a year. Sewage oil is 100 times more poisonous than arsenic, since then, sewage oil incident has attracted more media’s attention.
April 19, news said diseased pigs were sold at restaurants and food stalls in Qingyuan, Guangdong.
April 23, 73 tourists at Huairou Mountain in Beijing had nausea, vomiting and other symptoms after eating. After going to the hospital, doctor said the food they had contained clonidine, which was an expired high blood pressure medicine.
April 28, media exposed an oil factory in Changsha made and told 20 tons of “black heart oil”, mostly to college cafeterias.
May 26, in Shenyang, over 250 chickens died of diseases were found a smoked chicken joint. Sunset Yellow, Color Agent, other industrial dyes and also bags of iron rust were used to color the dead chickens.
June 7, Hong Kong Watson Drinks said to be infected with fungi.
June 11, poisonous sea snails were selling hot in the market, it was reported that eating one sea snail will cause death.
July 6, 8 children were poisoned from eating Jatropha in Hainan.
July 6, McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets said to contain two chemical components: one was in the clay toys “polydimethylsiloxane”, the other was extracted from oil “t-butyl benzene Diol”. McDonald’s said the amount of contents are lower than the international limits.
