A shopkeeper in Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, adds poppy shells to cook food to keep diners.

Beijing, Lanzhou, March 28 (Wang Jilu) March 28, Gansu Jiayuguan City District People's Court on the city's first case of production and sale of toxic and harmful food public judgment, and the first sentence issued a prohibition order, prohibiting the second defendant in the probation period to engage in food production, sales-related activities.From the beginning of June to September 11, 2015, defendant Yang, knowing that poppy shells were prohibited from adding non-food raw materials during the operation of Lao Liang lamb in Jiayuguan Qingquan, still directed defendant Li to illegally add lamb in the process of cooking it and selling it to customers.September 11, 2015, when police inspected the Old Liang Lamb Restaurant in Qingquan, a bag of suspected poppy shells with a net weight of 133.72 grams was seized at the scene and 5 kg of lamb soup was extracted. Upon examination and identification, about 94 per cent of the suspected poppy shells seized were opium poppy shells, and poppy base and cause were detected, and poppy base, causein and tibain were detected from samples of extracted lamb soup.The court held that the defendants Yang and Li, who were mixed with toxic and harmful non-food raw materials in the food produced and sold, should bear criminal responsibility for the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. In view of the fact that the two defendants truthfully confessed to the crimes committed, the guilty plea attitude is better, and the defendant Yang an automatic surrender, there are circumstances of surrender, are given a light sentence.Jiayuguan City People's Court sentenced the defendant Yang to three years' imprisonment, suspended for three years, and a fine of 6000 yuan for the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food;
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