Tainted hotpots 'common' * Source: Global Times * [08:09 December 16 2010] By Huang Jingjing Food safety has once again drawn negative attention amid claims that many flavoring ingredients served in popular hotpot dishes at restaurants contain harmful chemical additives, according to insiders. "Eighty percent of hotpots served at (restaurants) contain such chemical additives," said Wang, a chef who recently quit from a hotpot restaurant due to guilty feelings over the practice, the Anhui Business Daily reported Tuesday. A restaurant owner named Xu made a damning claim, saying he never eats hotpots at his restaurant because boiling the chemical additives...