CHINA: Processing plant closed after workers found deboning chicken with their teeth
By: just-food.com editorial team | 5 August 2002
Health officials acting on a tip-off raided a food-processing plant in the south-western city of Chengdu last week, to discover that workers were using their teeth to debone chicken feet of meat intended for sale to restaurants. The officials' report explained that they entered the plant to find two women gnawing at chicken claws beside a basket full of bones.
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Health officials acting on a tip-off raided a food-processing plant in the south-western city of Chengdu last week, to discover that workers were using their teeth to debone chicken feet of meat intended for sale to restaurants. The officials' report explained that they entered the plant to find two women gnawing at chicken claws beside a basket full of bones.

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