Police detain professor over 'lean meat' pig feed additive

BEIJING - Seven people have been arrested and another detained after police traced the origin of a new variety of clenbuterol, an illegal additive found in pig's feed.

Five suspects from a feed premix company in Fujian province are charged with supplying the chemical, while two feed dealers from Zhejiang province are accused of possessing the illegal additive.

A professor surnamed Zou at Zhejiang University, who was found to be keeping 1,500 kilograms of feed containing Phenylethanolamine A, a new variety of clenbuterol, is in criminal detention.