Tainted bean-sprouts discovered in Liaoning province in Northeast China in 2011, three years after the milk scandal in 2008.

According to the Xinhua News, six people have been arrested and sentenced to jail after producing and selling tainted bean-sprouts. They produced these bean-sprouts by adding toxic fertilizers like urea(a toxic chemical)and enrofloxacin(an antibiotic)to maximize their productions. Since the two fertilizers  were toxic and could harm people, they were not allowed to be used in Chinese agriculture.

The business ethical issue behind this event is that these six people, which are the producers violate the business value basis of being a responsible citizen. They neglect the benefits of the society in which they only care about making more profit. They do not even consider the harmfulness of the toxic chemicals that will affect consumers. Also, they are acting against the law of China in which they use banned chemicals to produce agricultural products and violate the business ethic of acting and selling honestly to consumers.