Meat buns with cardboard fillings in Beijing is hoax
www.chinaview.cn 2007-07-19 09:34:19
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BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) --The recent widely publicized report of
meat buns with cardboard fillings is a hoax and the TV scenario
maker has been detained by the police, the Beijing TV Station has
said.
The TV station apologized in a footage Wednesday evening for airing
the staged report produced with a home DV by a temporary employee
surnamed Zi on its Life Channel.
In the announcement, Beijing TV Station said airing of the
so-called problematic meat buns with a column known as
"Transparency" on July 8 had sparked off grave concern in the
society.
Workers from the municipal departments of industry and commerce,
and food safety immediately carried out a thorough inspection on
breakfast stands across the city.
Local police began to step in for investigation after the municipal
industrial, commercial and food safety watchdog failed to find any
of the problematic meat buns mentioned in the investigative TV
report.
Through investigation, the police discovered Zi, a temporary
employee of the Transparency column, using a pseudo name of Hu Yue,
twice went to the No.13 courtyard inside Shizikou Village,
Taiyanggong Township of Chaoyang District, and asked four migrant
workers who had been preparing breakfast there to make meat buns
for him under the excuse of buying more breakfast for other migrant
workers at a construction site, according to the TV
announcement.
Zi brought in pork, flour and cardboards he bought from the open
market and instructed the breakfast makers to make "baozi" or meat
buns using meat fillings produced from pork mixed with crushed
cardboard. He used a home DV to film the entire process, turned in
after some editing, and used trickish means to get his work
aired.
The television station said in the announcement the Life Channel
had failed to strictly examine the content of the report, resulting
in the airing of a faked report which had in turn produced a bad
influence in the society, and should therefore apologize to the
general public.
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