Opinion: From Pickled Cabbage to the Rush to Prove Chinese Companies Are ‘Pure’

For four purveyors of pickled cabbage, the bad press from a Chinese state television expose earlier this month was just the beginning of their troubles with the public.

To be clear, only two brands, Master Kong and Uni-President, were found to have quality issues related to unhygienic food processing, for which they apologized and recalled some of their products.