记录食品有毒有害、掺假造假、集体中毒等危害民众饮食安全的事件，以及事后的追责与掩盖。
Recently, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video: A man was chopping meat on the roadside, with the cut pieces piled on a mat on the ground. He used his foot twice to push the meat pieces together with his shoe, while a person nearby continued to shovel the meat into bags using a plastic dustpan.
On November 1, CCTV's Weekly Quality Report exposed the chaotic sales situation of sulfur-fumigated Angelica dahurica. During an undercover investigation, a merchant reminded the reporter that sulfur-free Angelica dahurica should be used for personal consumption, stating that sulfur-fumigated ones are "a bit bad for human consumption," but when discussing processed spiced dishes for sale, the merchant recommended sulfur-fumigated Angelica dahurica, saying it is "more fragrant."
On October 28, a netizen in Shandong posted a video on Xiaohongshu (RedNote), claiming that the vermicelli in a Yangguofu Malatang self-service cabinet appeared to be moldy. Netizens in the comments section joked that the spoiled vermicelli might end up in takeout orders.
On October 27, Shandian News exposed that multiple companies in Henan are processing chicken frames—left over after removing chicken necks and breast meat—into meat paste to supply the production of sausages, meatballs, and dumplings. Some workshops were found with sewage flowing everywhere, and some companies lacked food production licenses. The person in charge of Qixian Xinrui Food stated that the daily production capacity is at least 30 tons, with a selling price of 3,800 yuan per ton, and warned consumers to eat as little stuffed food products as possible.
On October 22, a worker at a food processing factory whose IP location showed Anhui posted a video. The footage showed workers portioning yellow peach pulp into plastic cups with their bare hands, preparing to make yellow peach jelly. The video received 621,000 reposts and 12,000 comments within 5 hours.
X user @QuanLujun posted claiming that veterinary antibiotics were detected in the bodies of children in China's Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai region. The user cited information published on October 22, 2024, and used it to allege that no safe food exists in China apart from food reserved exclusively for the Chinese Communist Party, thereby criticizing China's food safety problems.
Harbin Institute of Technology and other institutions published a study in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, screening cerebrospinal fluid samples from 91 subjects in Harbin who self-reported no history of occupational pesticide exposure, and detected a total of 20 pesticide-related compounds; biphenyl was detected in all samples, and 6 triazole components were also found. On October 18, a blogger posted a video introducing the study.
According to Twitter user @__Inty__ on October 17, 2026, a kindergarten owner in China was sentenced by a court to life in prison over a lead paint poisoning case.
On October 16, the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court handed down the first-instance verdict in the 2025 Tianshui kindergarten lead poisoning case: Li Huifang, the person actually in charge of the kindergarten, was sentenced to life in prison; Zhu Jinglin, the executive principal, was sentenced to 15 years; and the remaining 4 were sentenced to 6 to 8 years. The court found that the kindergarten's managers had instructed staff to mix toxic and harmful non-food raw materials into children's food, and that all 6 were guilty of the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food.
On October 16, blogger “Yulie Qige” conducted an undercover investigation of multiple osmanthus processing factories and street stalls in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, finding large amounts of sulfur powder and sulfur-burning bowls used to fumigate osmanthus outdoors, and said that almost every household in the area is engaged in production. He reported the sulfur raw materials, samples, and video evidence to the local public security authorities, after which law enforcement officers rushed to the scene to crack down on the illegal processing sites and collect evidence.
On October 16, a netizen in Yunnan posted a video exposing hotpot ingredient raw materials stacked on shelves in a shoddy and worrying warehouse environment. The video received a large number of likes and reposts, with netizens leaving sarcastic comments.
On the morning of September 30, Qingquange Bun Shop released an apology video, admitting lax oversight and managerial dereliction of duty, announcing a suspension of business, and carrying out comprehensive cleaning and disinfection of the worktops, kitchen utensils, walls, and floors.
On September 30, the Kaifu District Market Supervision Bureau in Changsha announced that it had issued a "Notice of Rectification" to the Qingquange store involved, ordering an immediate suspension of operations for rectification and stating that it would continue to follow up on the progress.
On June 30, multiple children at the affiliated kindergarten of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology experienced vomiting, and parents got no answers after pressing for two months. On September 14, a safety officer at the kindergarten's canteen exposed severe hygiene issues, such as washing shoes in vegetable washing pools and scrubbing woks with mops. The kindergarten had long ignored rectifications, and regulatory authorities failed to inspect the kitchen surveillance footage.
On September 21, it was circulated online that the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes distributed by Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU had expired, causing multiple employees to experience symptoms such as diarrhea and allergies after consumption. Huawei created an internal shared Excel sheet specifically to track the physical reactions of employees who ate the mooncakes.