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A video had circulated which showed a home cook finding a piece of plastic in Zeng Huaqing’s company’s seaweed. By the next day, the video had morphed into about 20 different versions and racked up more than two million views on on Weibo. Soon enough, Zeng said, the wholesale price of seaweed, dropped by more than 50% in Jinjiang — the southern Chinese coastal city that Zeng’s company is based in, and where 70% of China’s seaweed products come from. —
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