Third food scandal exposes rotten state of food inspectors

THE AUTHORITIES of a kindergarten in Yijiang district of Wuhu, Anhui province, have allowed expired sausages and other foods to be served to the students. This is the third kindergarten food scandal in the city in a month. Thepaper.cn comments:

In the previous food scandals, the kindergarten authorities reportedly allowed musty raw rice and rotten chicken legs to be cooked in the kindergarten kitchen and served to the children.

Some commentators wonder why kindergarten headmasters can't act conscientiously. But we cannot pin our hopes on just the conscience of such headmasters.