Police bust sellers of toxic salt
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A GANG which sold more than 20,000 tons of industrial salt as table salt has been busted in Beijing, police said yesterday.
They caught 22 suspects and uncovered five hideouts where the salt was repackaged in April, they told thepaper.cn
The salt had been sold to vendors in Beijing and Tianjin and several provinces.
Authorities are currently tracking down the salt to take it off the market.
An investigation began after law enforcement officials in east China’s Jiangsu Province found unusually large quantities of salt for sale at below the market rate in the city of Taizhou.
Tests revealed that the salt was industrial salt and not fit for human consumption.
In a joint operation with Beijing police, Taizhou police tracked the trade to premises in the capital.
Two alleged ringleaders, named as Wang and Jiang, are said to have opened a salt trading firm to buy industrial salt and rented an empty factory where workers repackaged it as normal, edible salt.
A police official told the news website that industrial salt could be bought for 400 yuan (US$64) a ton while table salt could fetch 4,000 yuan.
Wang, who is in detention in Taizhou, is said to have told police he started the business in 2008 and learned how from Jiang, his brother-in-law.
Wang said he had earned about 1 million yuan since 2008, while police found Jiang had bought a house, an Audi SUV and several stores in Beijing with his share of the proceeds.
Industrial salt contains harmful nitrites and the consumption of large quantities can lead to death.
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