I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

I have heard that human hair may be used in soy sauce particulary Chinese soy sauce- if this is true how would it be listed in the ingredients? -which brands should i avoid? S.

I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

Oh great, now I have to give up bagels as well as Chinese food?

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblo...

Hair-Made Soy Sauce: An Update

Status: Gross news

Back in January 2004 I posted a short entry about a factory in China that had been caught making soy sauce out of human hair. I also mentioned the incident in Hippo Eats Dwarf (p.76). Now more gruesome details have emerged, published in the Internet Journal of Toxicology (link via Boing Boing):

In late 2003, there was an alternatively produced soy sauce named "Hongshuai Soy Sauce" in China. The soy sauce was marketed as 閳ユ競lended using latest bioengineering technology閳?by a food seasoning manufacturer, suggesting that the soy sauce was not generated in a traditional way using soy and wheat. The Hongshuai Soy Sauce was sold at a relatively low price in Mainland China and became very popular among the public. The people found its taste to be similar to other brands. Because of its low price, many catering services in schools and colleges decided to use this new product.

An investigation led by TV journalists then revealed why the soy sauce was so cheap. It was being manufactured from an amino acid powder (or syrup) bought from a manufacturer in Hubei province:

When asking how the amino acid syrup (or powder) was generated, the manufacturer replied that the powder was generated from human hair. Because the human hair was gathered from salon, barbershop and hospitals around the country, it was unhygienic and mixed with condom, used hospital cottons, used menstrual cycle pad, used syringe, etc. After filtered by the workers, the hair would then cut small for being processed into amino acid syrup. The technicians admitted that they would not consume the human-hair soy sauce because the dirty and unhygienic hair was used to make amino acid syrup. A quality monitoring staff also revealed that though the hair may not be toxic itself, it definitely consisted of bacteria and other micro-organisms.

Lovely. But what the article doesn't mention, but which I believe to be true, is that soy sauce isn't the only food product made out of this cheap hair-made amino acid powder. The stuff is also sold in large quantities to the bakery industry which uses it as a source of L-cysteine to make dough softer and more elastic. Think about that next time you're chewing on a bagel.

I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

that is the dumbest thing i have heard today... you win!

I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

there is no hair in soy sauce... however in some there is a fair share of msg...

I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

how you you even get hair into soy sauce anways? Strain it with hair, maybe....but to actually put it in....

I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

This is all very strange - and Gormenghast's answer was a real eye-opener..!!

The only thing I can recommend is that you look at the INGREDIENTS list on the bottle! REAL soy sauce will contain SOY BEANS, flour, salt, and alcohol.

If you do that, you can not only avoid any fake CHINESE soy sauces, but you can also avoid the fake AMERICAN soy sauce, which doesn't actually contain soy beans, and isn't even brewed, traditionally or otherwise! It's just a cost-saving exercise so they can pocket more of your cash for every bottle you buy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn...

Obviously you won't buy anything without an official English ingredients list, but I have to point out that whichever country you are in it's highly unlikely they would permit imports of products made from human hair and used tampons!

I would like to know how I can avoid Soy sauce with the rumoured ingredient-hair! S.?

are you serious! i have never heard that before and i use it all the time.