BEIJING (Reuters) - Think a bottle of mineral water might have
poisoned you? Then test it on a chicken.
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One Chinese family on the southern island province of Hainan had
just that idea when one of their number started vomiting blood
after drinking a bottle of water, a newspaper said.
They fed the luckless chicken the rest of the water to see what
would happen, the Beijing News said, citing a report in a local
paper. "The result was the chicken died within a minute," it said,
showing a picture of a man holding a plastic bottle squatting over
the crumpled body of the bird.
The province's authorities were investigating, it added.
Barely a day goes by without some new scandal over a made-in-China
product, be it toys, toothpaste or fish, which has raised safety
concerns in major export markets around the world.
