China is known for many things, but they're perhaps most infamous for their counterfeit items. From clothes to bags to electronics—even whole towns—China has it all. However, they've recently taken the counterfeit business a little further and have entered the disturbing realm of counterfeit foods.
曾经辉煌灿烂的历史文化让中国声名远扬，但现在一波接一波的造假事件又让中国的形象有些狼狈。从衣服到包包再到电子工业，甚至一整座城市，聪明的中国人都可以仿制得真假难辨。最近一些造假分子又把贪婪的触角伸向食品行业。

10.Plastic Rice
10.塑料大米

If there's one food that should be impossible to counterfeit, it would be rice. But the Chinese did it anyway. China's fake rice is also called plastic rice. It's made from potatoes, sweet potatoes, and synthetic resin molded into the shape of real rice. The faux rice was commonly sold in Chinese markets, especially in Taiyuan in Shaanxi Province. The rice remained as hard as stone even after it was cooked and did not digest easily. It's also pretty dangerous, since consuming three bowls of it is equal to consuming one bag of vinyl, or one plastic bag.
几乎所有人都不相信大米也能造假，但聪明的中国人最爱挑战，想出用土豆、甘薯和松香混合，制作出的塑料大米晶莹剔透，与真大米几乎无异。这种人造大米即使用开水煮也十分坚硬，吃下肚很难消化，可怕的是吃三碗人造大米就相当于吞下一只塑料袋，对人体的危害可想而知。
Aside from producing artificial rice, dishonest Chinese rice sellers also add flavors to ordinary rice and sell them to the unsuspecting public as "Wuchang rice," which is more costly and generally considered one of the better brands of rice sold in Chinese markets. Only 800,000 tons of this Wuchang rice are produced annually, while about 10 million tons are sold. In other words, more than 9 million tons are fake.
除了这种做法，利益熏心的稻米供应商还会在大米里添加香味剂，然后贴上"五常大米"的标签摆放在超市的货架上，经常逛超市的主妇们一定了解"五常大米"产于黑龙江五常县，那里长出的大米色泽青白剔透，口感绵软微甜，市场上价格要比其他品牌的大米高出许多，供应商们看到有利可图，纷纷开始高仿"五常大米"。人们吃着香甜扑鼻的米饭浑然不知化学药品也在跟着进入体内。数据显示，五常县每年只出产八十万吨的优质大米，市面上这种大米的销售量却有一千万吨。换句话说，你懂的。

9.Rat Mutton
9.挂羊头卖鼠肉

When they're not tampering with rice, dishonest Chinese food sellers are adding chemicals to meat from rats, minks, and foxes and selling them as mutton. The scheme was so popular and successful that the police arrested more than 900 people and seized about 20,000 tons of this meat, all within three months. One of the sellers, a man named Wei, even raked in more than £1 million from sales alone. He mixed fox, rat, and mink meat with nitrate, gelatin, and carmine before selling it in markets to unsuspecting buyers.
在高仿大米商业链条形成之前，中国有些黑心的食品供应商们最热衷于在肉制品上做手脚。为了提高利润，他们在狐狸肉，貂肉甚至老鼠肉上添加化学药剂，经过加工当作羊肉出售。假羊肉食用起来口感和真羊肉差别不大，因此并未引起人们的怀疑，加之利润可观，这些以次充好的肉制品大受工厂、作坊和零售商的青睐。但时间不长，有关部门发现了这个问题，开始打击逮捕黑作坊、黑心肉贩，短短三个月就查获将近两万吨假羊肉。有一个供应商被抓捕后坦白，他从一些暗渠收购老鼠肉，狐狸肉和貂肉，然后用硝酸盐、明胶、洋红加工成假羊肉，没多久净赚将近一千万人民币，简直是暴利！
Chinese police posted a tutorial on Sina Weibo, China's biggest microblogging site, to teach people how to differentiate between real and fake mutton. While the difference between them is hard to tell at first glance, the white and red parts of real mutton don't separate after getting thawed, torn by hand, or boiled, while the fake meat does.
该如何鉴别真假羊肉呢？媒体们开始在新浪微博上支招了。真羊肉和假羊肉虽然乍一看没有区别，但用水煮会发现真羊肉的脂肪和精肉不会分开，而假羊肉的着色剂会褪去，变成色泽暗淡的劣质肉，可别再误买假羊肉啦。

8.Chemical Tofu
8.化工豆腐

Tofu, also called soya curd, is a cheese-like food made from a mixture of soy milk and a coagulant. Chinese authorities recently closed down two factories in Wuhan, Hubei Province for selling fake tofu, which was made by mixing various chemicals together. One worker confessed that they combined soy protein with flour, monosodium glutamate, pigment, and ice to make the fake tofu before packaging it and selling it under the name of another company that was producing real tofu.
豆腐，又称水豆腐，是我国素食菜肴的主要原料，主要的生产过程一是制浆，即将大豆制成豆浆；二是凝固成形，即豆浆在热与凝固剂的共同作用下凝固成含有大量水分的凝胶体，即豆腐。最近，有关部门查封了湖北武汉两个制作假豆腐的食品作坊。里面参与制作的一个工人说，这种豆腐就是将面粉、味精、冰块、大豆蛋白以及各种色素一起混合做成成本更低的假豆腐，做好后再用另一家豆腐生产厂的商标进行包装，供应给市场上的零售商。
Using soy protein to make tofu isn't the most dastardly of deeds, but not all the schemes were so innocent. Another criminal gang made counterfeit tofu by adding rongalite, an industrial bleaching agent that's been linked to cancer. Supposedly, the chemical made their tofu chewier and brighter. The syndicate was headed by three cousins who sold about 100 tons of the tainted product to the unsuspecting public. When police raided their factory, they found employees making the counterfeit food with grimy, unwashed equipment.
用大豆蛋白制作豆腐应该算不上最黑心的手段，至少这些合成原料平时人们也经常食用，对身体危害不大。但接下来要说的化工豆腐估计要让大家咬牙切齿了。有一个地下作坊为了让豆腐更加洁白光亮有嚼劲，竟然添加雕白粉，小编告诉大家，这可是一种致癌几率相当高的工业漂白剂。警察突击检查他们的作坊时，那里的工人们仍在忙碌地"合成"豆腐，使用的设备满是灰尘，从未消过毒。

7.Formaldehyde And Duck Blood
7.甲醛鸭血

Duck blood tofu is a delicacy in China. It's made from blood extracted from slaughtered ducks. The blood is then heated until it thickens, allowing it to be cut into squares and sold. That's strange already, but it gets worse: Sellers have been known to mix deadly ingredients like formaldehyde with much cheaper pig or buffalo blood, then sell the concoction as duck blood. Chinese authorities once broke a fake duck-blood ring that was being run by a couple in Jiangsu Province. In this instance, the couple wasn't using pig or buffalo meat. Instead, they used chicken blood mixed with inedible dye and materials used for printing. One ton of fake duck blood was confiscated. The use of fake duck blood for duck blood tofu is so prevalent in China today that customers have become pretty good at spotting the difference between the real stuff and the fake stuff.
鸭血豆腐在中国是家喻户晓的一道美味，顾名思义，鸭血豆腐的一大原料就是鸭血。将新鲜的鸭血加热，凝固成块状后就是成品了。传统做法是这样子，可不要忘了咱们这篇文章是要带大家看真相。也许你不会相信市场上很多鸭血其实是猪血和牛血，更不会相信这些猪血牛血里还有甲醛！但这就是真相。公安部门曾在江苏查封一对夫妻经营的甲醛鸭血作坊，没收了整整一吨假鸭血。虽然这对夫妇没有用猪血或者牛血充当鸭血，但可恶的是将大量对人体有害的化工染料掺进鸭血中。好在现在很多人已经知道甲醛鸭血，在市场上购买鸭血时会更加留意。

6.Adulterated Honey
6.掺假蜂蜜

There are two types of counterfeit honey: the adulterated one, which is a mixture of real honey and sugar syrup, beetroot syrup, or rice syrup, and the fake honey, which looks more like real honey than real honey itself. It is made from a mixture of water, sugar, alum, and coloring. One kilogram (2.2 lb) of fake honey can be produced for just 10 yuan (about $1.60) and sold for as much as 60 yuan ($9.50). About 70 percent of the honey sold in China's Jinan Province is fake and, as usual, Chinese newspapers have offered instructions on how to differentiate between real and fake honey.
假冒伪劣的蜂蜜有两种：一种是掺假蜂蜜，这种蜂蜜在真蜂蜜当中掺杂了甜菜糖浆或者大米糖浆，另外还有水、糖、明矾合成的假蜂蜜。1公斤假蜂蜜的生产成本是10块钱而成品售价是60块钱，山东蜂蜜销售市场中大约有70%都是假冒伪劣产品。和往常报道食品问题一样，国内主流媒体又把焦点放在教大家如何辨别真假蜂蜜上。
China is the world's biggest producer of honey, which it exports to other countries. A study revealed that 10 percent of the honey sold in France was fake and most likely originated in either East Europe or China. US Customs also busted a fake honey-smuggling ring made up of US honey producers. It was discovered that they had been bringing fake honey into the US from China via Australia.
中国是世界最大的蜂蜜制造出口国。有项报告显示，在法国出售的蜂蜜中有10%是假蜂蜜，这些假蜂蜜的原产地主要是西欧和中国。美国警方也在本土抓获了几个美国蜂蜜走私团伙。调查发现他们的假蜂蜜经由澳大利亚引进美国，无一例外，这些蜂蜜的原产地都是中国。

翻译:雨后起点 来源:前十网