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Beijing News exposé about use of fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products snowballed into the largest food safety controversy in China since the 2008 melamine-tainted milk and baby formula scandal.
Multiple investigations are now underway, including one by the State Council , and a number of others by local supervisory bodies and companies implicated in the scandal.
Online censorship of the tanker truck story has already emerged, with some related phrases unsearchable on Weibo .
Han Futao has been the target of online critics who question his motives and impugn his integrity.
Ultranationalist commentator Sima Nan recently called for an investigation into Futao and his employer, the Beijing News , for their reporting about the tanker truck scandal.
It would not be the first time a Chinese investigative journalist has been targeted for exposing a scandal that embarrassed the government or threatened powerful vested interests.
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