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South Korea Detects Carcinogen in Chinese Liquors

Jun 25, 2008



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South Korea's Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment detected cyclamate, an artificial sweetener, in two kinds of Chinese wine when inspecting imported foods from China.

According to the South Korean Yonhap News Agency's report on June 23, in a two-month period starting in April, South Korea did extensive testing on 63 kinds of Chinese foods, including wine, kimchi, and candy. It detected cyclamate in 2 kinds of Chinese wine.

Cyclamate is a kind of sweetener, several dozen times sweeter than sugar. It is banned in North Korea and the U.S. because it contains a carcinogen. South Korea has ordered a recall.

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