In East China Zhejiang province, the trial began of a restaurant chef of one of the hotels in Hangzhou, which is to give a more attractive appearance prepared dishes used food dye. As reported by Xinhua, 27-year-old employee of the Chinese catering accused of producing and selling poisonous and harmful food.

Last spring one of the restaurant customers expressed their displeasure with the color of crow's feet, cooked a young chef. After that, the chef of the restaurant held "explanatory talk" with their subordinates and threatened with dismissal if he did not take into account the criticism. Intimidated cook, instead, to improve the appearance of food due professional skill, just decided to paint them cheap dye.

For six months the deception of the cook went unnoticed, but during a regular check of the employees of the city sanitation Department found in the kitchen bubble with a strange dye, and 11 "abalone" and about 2 kg of crow's feet, "painted" with this dye, Smoking, as then it turned out to use in cooking. Only, according to the investigation, the accused painted and sold food products in the amount of 4.8 thousand yuan (about $ 800).

Recently, Chinese authorities pay special attention to combating the sale of food products, the production of which was used harmful to human health substances. This struggle is particularly intensified after received a wide resonance "melamine scandal in 2008, when it became known that some manufacturer add in milk chemical melamine to increase the protein content in products. Due to the use of infant formula with melamine killed six children, even more than 300 thousand sick.