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Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Some heads will literally roll for this. Is embezzlement worth death penalty?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the US it would be a fine equal to 5% of one year's profits, spread over a 10 year period

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey whoa, some low-level employee would go to jail too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

gotta have a scapegoat, don't know what they were thinking

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think so, companies usually gets away with it unless related something anti nationalist like Japan.

Tsingtao: Video shows Chinese beer worker urinating into tank https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67191242

The guy who recorded the video of the guy pissing in the beer got in trouble for "disturbing the peace"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you've tried Tsingtao beer, it's just watered piss anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well now it is ..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For the right price, sure. But then nobody gets into this game thinking they're the ones who will get caught. You think Elizabeth Holmes and SBF believed they'd be cooling their heels in federal prison when they started lying?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

you would be surprised what is considered normal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Probably some people will get disappeared except for one who will be actually blamed for it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, some. In a country like China with no rule of law, there's always a chance you know the right people to get out of it, or are otherwise too indispensable to punish.