Supermarket chain rewards whistleblower on food safety

A supermarket chain in Henan province has awarded a whistleblower 100,000 yuan ($13,800), and will pay some 8.83 million yuan in customer compensation after an investigation confirmed a report that a processing workshop that supplied food for one of its contracted stalls was in poor sanitary condition.

Pangdonglai, which operates about a dozen supermarkets and department stores in Henan, announced the decision on its WeChat account on Thursday, adding that two food safety managers had been fired and the company's contract with the diner selling the food has been terminated.

Clips posted on the Douyin short video platform on Tuesday claimed that a processing workshop that supplied raw materials for ganmianpi, a seasoned cold noodle salad, for a food stall in a Pangdonglai shopping center in Xinxiang, Henan, was in a poor sanitary condition.