Sigh... and I thought evil-doers would learn something from the Melamine case and stop whatever adulteration they were doing and cover their tracks...
Police busted a factory in Jhongli City, Taiwan yesterday morning, for allegedly selling industrial salt as edible salt.
The investigation conducted jointly by the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office and the Department of Health revealed that the factory sold industrial salt as edible salt for at least the past three years.
Source from Food Safety Net
In the food industries, it is common to conduct microbial or heavy metal testings every biannually for common items like salt or spices, but for retail shops, they don't do testings like that. And it is despicable that suppliers exploit that point and sell them materials containing harmful substances.