A Chinese restaurant owner has been
arrested after allegedly lacing dishes with opium in an effort to keep
customers coming back, BBC News reported.
The owner of the Yan'an noodle shop, known only as Zhang, admitted
he bought 4.4 pounds of poppy buds in August. The buds contain the opium poppy
seeds, from which the addictive narcotic opium is made.
Zhang allegedly crushed the buds into powder form and mixed them
into menu items.
Police discovered the secret ingredient after one of Zhang's
customers, Liu Juyou, 26, tested positive for drugs during a routine traffic
stop.
Cops held Juyou for 15 days until he sent relatives to the
restaurant to eat the noodles in question. After the family members tested
positive for drugs, police launched an investigation.
Zhang was arrested and detained for 10 days.
An anti-narcotics police agent told BBC News that chemicals from
poppy can build up in the body and create a positive result on an opiate drug
test. Ingesting the food over a long period of time can even have an addictive
effect.
Unprocessed poppy seeds used to be a popular ingredient in Chinese
fare, but their use has since been banned, according to the BBC.
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