Professor Li made himself under the spot light after he made a statement at a public event sponsored by Maotai, a top Chinese liquor producer, affirming that additives such as Melamine and Plasticizer were safe for human consumption.
It's no secret that many Chinese liquor is blended by industrial material. However, it has been unthinkable to the public until recently that even top level brand, such as Maotai, and Jiugui (drunk ghost) did the same. Also it had been a secret on how to make a one year liquor taste like 60 years liquor, in other words, how to make the liquor taste 'rich (thinker and heavier)'. Both 'Jiugui' and 'Maotail' have been tested to contain unreasonably high volume of plasticizer.
Professor Li argued that tea, coffee and cell phone signals are all cancer causing sources, and that melamine and plasticizer are also cancer causing sources. If people can drink tea, than they can drink plasticizer. Professor Li also challenged the safety standard published by the Health Department on plasticizer in food. "All experiments so far were on rats, and the data were scaled to human," said Li, "before a human experiment on plasticizer, the standard was not usable."
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