A woman, surnamed Cai, has been sentenced to one year in prison after biting and cutting a policeman during an investigation into the reuse of waste cooking oil at a workshop in Shanghai's Jiading district.
Police visited the Nanxiang town workshop in July 2013 after a local resident reported that it was being used to illegally process the oil so that it could be resold, Jiadang District People's Prosecutor's Office said.
When officials entered the building, Cai and her husband, surnamed Zhang, threatened them with knives. When one police officer went to restrain Cai, she cut his arm and bit him on the elbow.
At the workshop, investigators found several barrels of food waste in a van, each weighing around 50 kg (110 lb).
Cai was charged with obstruction of official business for attacking the officer, rates of which crime the prosecutor's office said had risen by 60 percent over the last year.
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