Wal-Mart Faces New Food-Safety Complaints in China

Wal-Mart has come under fire for allegedly violating food safety rules in China just a year after the retail giant became embroiled in a false advertising scandal in which ordinary pork was mislabeled as organic. According to Beijing’s Food Safety Administration Wal-Mart has breached regulations by selling sesame oil containing high amounts of benzopyrene and squid with dangerous levels of cadmium. Consumption of both chemicals can lead to cancer, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The retailer is also facing questions from Dazhou, a city in southwestern China, where earlier this year regulators discovered pork ribs from diseased hogs at a local Wal-Mart. 

Via The Wall Street Journal.