That may be because half of the world's population lives within 2600 miles of ZhanJiang, China (a great little port town, by the way).
Posted on 04/18/2018 5:59:27 AM PDT by Gamecock
Dak Nong Police said on Tuesday they were finalizing case files to prosecute those involved in the operations of a local facility that produced ‘dirty’ coffee.
The facility, owned by Nguyen Thi Loan, was raided by police and food inspectors on Monday afternoon following reports from locals of their suspicious activities.
During the raid, authorities discovered tons of finished coffee as well as raw materials used in production, including 35 kilograms of black powder taken from used D batteries and a bucket of blackish water weighing around ten kilograms.
According to Loan, her workshop bought rejected coffee beans from large facilities at a cheap price, ground and mixed them with other materials including dirt and rock dust, then used the black powder found inside D batteries to ‘dye’ the mixture to produce finished products.
Loan confessed to having run the facility for years and had sold over three tons of ‘coffee’ to the market since the beginning of 2018.
At the time of the raid, there was twelve metric tons of the dirty coffee available at Loan’s facility.
Police have taken samples of the battery-dyed coffee for lab tests to complete case files for the prosecution of those involved.
According to Assoc. Prof. Tran Hong Con, a chemistry expert from the Vietnam National University – Hanoi, the ‘black powder’ found inside D batteries is actually manganese dioxide that makes up the batteries’ core.
Manganese dioxide is a highly oxidant compound, and as little as 0.5 milligrams of it mixed in a liter of water is enough to cause manganese poisoning in humans, Con said.
In addition, other heavy metals commonly found inside batteries such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) are all extremely toxic elements that can damage one’s brain, kidney, cardiovascular system and fertility if consumed.
“Poisoning caused by any of the aforementioned heavy metals can have very adverse health effects, including death in serious cases,” an expert from Vietnam’s National Institute of Nutrition said.
And THAT is why coffee is bad for you. /hoisting my next sip
LOL, I’m switching to Sanka
From what i have read...vietnam is a very large coffee producer...this must have been a bottom of the barrel producer...geez i bought some awful tasting “produced in vietnam” coffee from dollar tree once...threw it out after 2 cups....will need to check my Walmart brand stuff...tastes passable...but who knows nowadays..wouldnt be surprised if starbucks or other big chains mixing good coffees with other bad coffee “blends” Wake up and smell the Covfefe!
Thanks for the information. I guess if the one company makes a big deal out of its use of the animals being natural and healthy, it might be assumed that there are companies whose use is the opposite. If I were inclined to drink the stuff, that right there would stop me.
I have stopped drinking coffee due to sour stomach problems but I used to love it like a hog loves slop. I suggest you try some Seafarer’s Blend, I have only found it at Big Lots stores but it is a very good coffee for a reasonable price in my opinion. The last thing I would drink would be Starbucks.
BRANDO’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
That may be because half of the world's population lives within 2600 miles of ZhanJiang, China (a great little port town, by the way).
You we were right all along when we sit out old gas station gas and said “Ugh this tastes like battery Acid!”
The only coffee I drank in Viet Nam was the instant coffee from the C-Rations. “It looked like muddy water, and tasted like iodine.” Actually, it tasted like muddy water, too.
Ba-mi-ba!
A few years ago, I found Bier 33 for sale in a import liquor store. I bought some and took it with me to the MRF reunion; and had it served at the 4th BN 47th Inf party. They appreciated the joke, and drank the beer anyway.
Back in the late 1980’s, I had 33 beer from France in Vietnamese restaurants. In recent years, I’ve seen 33 from Vietnam for sale in upscale liquor stores.
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