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Special ingredient

Sunday 23 January 1994 00:02 GMT
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PEKING - The Chinese diet may soon include maggots. Scientists have developed nutrition-rich extracts from maggots of the common fly, and are negotiating with food and pharmaceutical firms to mass-produce the products, the Xinhua news agency said. AP

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