Word: monosodium
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...Last month, with pressure mounting, investigators announced they had caught a Taiwanese-owned monosodium glutamate factory red-handed. Though it had taken three months of undercover work, inspectors discovered that Vedan Vietnam, a foreign-owned company, was illegally dumping untreated waste into the river. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Pham Khoi Nguyen called it "not just a violation but, in fact, treacherous behavior." An unprecedented crackdown followed: a Korean MSG manufacturer was nabbed dumping toxic waste. Several foreign-owned starch factories, which can release cyanide during processing, were shut down. On October 10, inspectors caught a Vietnamese leather tanning company...
...They have more monosodium glutamate b) They have less genetic material c) They have small, nearly invisible penises d) They never ask for directions when they're lost...
Yang said that his offerings contain monosodium glutamate because "we couldn't find soy sauce without...
...kept coming back for fried chicken at the new KFC outlet in Bangalore. Nothing, that is, until they proved to be undercover agents for city officials, who charged that the chicken they had bought was adulterated, misbranded, unfit for consumption and laced with dangerously high levels of monosodium glutamate--a seasoning that authorities claimed could cause cancer when consumed in large amounts. (Studies conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found no link between MSG and cancer.) Shaken KFC managers, who denied the charges and pointed out that the company serves the same chicken in 9,400 restaurants...
...Monosodium Glutamate is a version of glutamic acid, an amino acid present in most proteins. It has been a staple of cooking in Asia for 2,000 years, and was originally produced from seaweed. In China, it is called, depending on the region, mei-jing, wei-jing or ve-tsin...