I'd Like the Shrimp, Hold the Malachite Green

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about how China Says Its Seafood Is Safer.

Regulators say that over the last year, more than 30,000 inspectors have fanned out across the country, working to close shoddy seafood operations and enforce regulations against the use of banned antibiotics, like chloramphenicol and malachite green, which is thought to cause cancer.

Despite those concerns, China's booming aquaculture business grew by $8.7billion last year. The article has some good insights into Chinese politics and even comes with a sprinkling of shifting baselines:

...regulators were having difficulty stopping polluters from damaging waterways used by fish farmers because much of the pollution occurs gradually.