China - Pesticide puts crab food safety at issue
(fis.com) An expert suggesting people wash hairy crabs with a sodium bicarbonate solution to avoid pesticide residues has sparked a heated discussion online concerning food safety, with the best season for crabs just around the corner.
Modern Express, a Jiangsu-based newspaper, yesterday reported hairy crabs are likely to contain sodium pentachlorophenol, a pesticide "often" used in aquaculture to kill leeches and oncomelania snails.
Liu Hualing, deputy director of the physical and chemical inspection department of the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, told the newspaper that hairy crabs may have sodium pentachlorophenol in their flesh.