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Song Xiangqian

Opinion: From Pickled Cabbage to the Rush to Prove Chinese Companies Are ‘Pure’

Uni-President and Master Kong instant noodles are displayed at a supermarket in Hua county, Central China's Henan province, on March 16, 2022. Photo: VCG

For four purveyors of pickled cabbage, the bad press from a Chinese state television expose earlier this month was just the beginning of their troubles with the public.

To be clear, only two brands, Master Kong and Uni-President, were found to have quality issues related to unhygienic food processing, for which they apologized and recalled some of their products.

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