All those food safety scandals that made China hit the news lately also made her an exporter of dangerous foods into the Philippines. And health-conscious people must be more vigilant with foods coming from that country. Say, think about it a lot of times. IN RECENT years, China has been plagued with an array of food safety scandals—toxic infant formula, pesticide-tainted vegetables, exploding watermelons, lean meat powder and pork reconstituted as beef. Lately, the issue has been about gutter oil—used cooking oil scooped out of restaurant drains. Vomiting from the grossness of it is the least of the dangers it can bring. It may not be accidental that the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences noticed the high liver cancer rates in China and in nearby parts of Asia. Waste oil can be contaminated with fungi that produce aflatoxin, a biological poison that increases the risk of liver cancer. And around September last year, the Chinese government had s
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