The Shanghai Daily reports growers of tainted bean sprouts in Shanghai’s Qingpu District have been detained, local authorities said yesterday.

??Shanghai Food and Drug Administration said the bean sprouts found in unlicensed premises in thesites/default/files/amy_sprouts_guelph_05(24).jpgXianghuaqiao residential community contained illegal additives.?.

Officials gave no further details of what kind of additives they were and it was not known whether they were toxic or added in excessive amounts. ??All the contaminated bean sprouts have been destroyed and several suspects detained after local authorities acted on a tip-off from a resident.