A netizen shared about a packet of instant bread soup that he found from a supermarket at Lot One, Scarlett Supermarket.
In the list of ingredients at the back of the packet, it listed methamphetamine (a controlled drug in Singapore, otherwise known as crystal meth) as one of the ingredients of the food product.
The netizen posted a photo of the packet of Liu Yi Pai Xi’an Paomo and asked if methamphetamine was a normal ingredient in the instant soup.
The ingredients list stated that the item was imported by a company called the Green Olive Group, which runs the group of Scarlett Supermarkets in Singapore.
Speaking to The Straits Times, the supermarket clarified that the product doesn’t actually have methamphetamine inside it.
They said that it was a translation error by their counterparts in China, and that the listed ingredient was supposed to be “glacial acetic acid” (a food additive) instead.
They said that all the affected food products have since been removed from the shelves at their Lot One supermarket outlet and returned to the warehouse.
The affected products were imported from the Chinese manufacturer Shaanxi Qinhou Food Technology on 12 February.
Netizens’ comments
- Breaking bread
- Where’d you get it? Imma need to grab one for myself before the stock runs out now that you posted about it.
- So this is what Walter and Jesse is cooking…
- Their translations damm funny. Their sugarcane chestnut drink translate as cane horseshoe drink
- reasons why human translators are needed hhhh
- The authorities do not check on the ingredient list? I mean they should have submitted the same badly translated list to HSA right?
- Can’t wait to try Los Pollos Hermanos, they give KFC a run for their money
- You think of steaming buns, you think of the guy who had his buns factory raided by SFA? No, I am the one who steams. – Walter Bai
