(CFP)

Wan Long, Board Chairman of Shuanghui Group, one of China's largest meat processors, has been put under the spotlight because of an additive scandal exposed by the media on March 15.

It was reported Jiyuan Shuanghui Food Co. Ltd., an affiliate of Shuanghui Group, had purchased pigs fed with clenbuterol, an additive which makes animals more valuable by developing greater muscle mass and producing less fat. The additive is illegal and hazardous to human beings.

"In the future, we will enhance control ability over downstream enterprises to ensure food safety. Feeding bases of our group will be set up wherever slaughtering factories are built. We won't become the next Sanlu Group Co. (bankrupted in 2009 because of the melamine-tainted milk incident)," said Wan in response to the scandal.

Wan, 71, began working for Luohe Meat Factory in 1968 and became its leader in 1984. Since then, he has turned the factory into a large food enterprise.