Chinese officials have vowed that the Beijing Games - a source of tremendous national pride - will be part of the crackdown on unsafe food.
Sun Wenxu, an official with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, told reporters that athletes, coaches, officials and others can be assured of safe meals.
That’s great, but what about the other 15 million people that live in Beijing? This seems like another half-hearted effort to appease foreign concerns. These efforts are unlikely to improve food safety for the millions of inhabitants of the Chinese capital.
The Associated Press reports:
In a report aired Wednesday night, China Central Television showed how a bun maker in a district in Beijing used cardboard picked off the street as filling for his product.
The undercover investigation report showed how squares of cardboard were first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda - a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap - then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning were stirred in and minutes later, steaming buns were shown on screen.
The complete article is China to begin Olympic food checks.
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