Keeping cabbage fresh forever...

Cabbage sellers in China have been caught spraying their produce with formaldehyde to keep it fresh during long trips to market, in the country’s latest food safety scandal.

The official Xinhua News Agency said dozens of wholesale vegetable dealers in Shandong province’s Qingzhou city were caught selling cabbage sprayed with formaldehyde.

It didn’t say whether the dealers had been arrested and what penalties they might face.

Formaldehyde can irritate the skin and cause breathing and digestive problems, and it is a known carcinogen.