Friday, 18. June 2004
Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2004 at 11:01:00 AM CEST
215 Chinese restaurants shut down for adding opium to food
The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive.
Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Dishes at the restaurants in Guizhou province contained varying degrees of the opium derivative morphine, the report said.
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