China FDA Shuts Down Chinese Restaurants For Lacing Foods with 'Opium' seasoning

The China Food and Drug Administration (China FDA) has cracked down on a string of restaurants after discovering foods were being “seasoned” with opium. According to the Independent, approximately 35 Chinese restaurants, including a popular Beijing food chain, are at the center of controversy after it was determined that customers were consuming foods laced with opium poppies. However, that’s not all.

The China FDA also shut the restaurants down due to other drugs found in foods being served to patrons. “Papaverine, morphine, codeine, noscapine, thebaine poppy shell and other components there is suspicion of illegal behavior added,” according to the statement released by the China FDA, translated to English via Google Translate.

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