ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES – Customers who recently bought a type of instant Chinese bread soup from Scarlett Supermarket in Singapore might have been shocked to find a Class A controlled drug on its list of ingredients.
The instant meal, called Liu Yi Pao Xi’an Paomo – a type of lamb soup with chunks of flat bread, listed methamphetamine on its ingredients list.
But Scarlett Supermarket general manager Lawrence Ong told The Straits Times that the product did not contain the highly addictive drug, and its list of ingredients had been translated wrongly by the Chinese manufacturer.
The ingredient that was translated wrongly was glacial acetic acid, a food additive used as a flavour enhancer and preservative.
“The translation is an error on the product,” he said in an e-mailed response.
