'You Get What You Pay For': The Hidden Price of Food from China

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In recent years, China has become a major food supplier to Europe. But the low-cost goods are grown in an environment rife with pesticides and antibiotics, disproportionately cited for contamination and subject to an inspection regime full of holes. A recent norovirus outbreak in Germany has only heightened worries.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-861406.html