Food | July 12, 2007 | 9 comments

Beware of the 'food' in China!

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_as/china_cardboard_buns;_ylt=Avr2hlwQkVv6TWRAOb...

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Cardboard filled buns, anyone?! Be careful if you make your way to the Olympics, people. This week alone, in addition to this article, there was also the banning of diethylene glycol — a thickening agent used in antifreeze — from toothpaste, the execution of the former head of its food and drug watchdog who approved six medicines that turned out to be fake, and investigations of a report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing used counterfeit branded water. "The government also assured athletes, coaches, officials, and others could count on safe meals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, and that food would be free of substances that could trigger a positive result in tests for banned performance enhancing drugs." Well, since you said so, great!
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9 comments // Beware of the 'food' in China!

  • Tori
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    • So the reporter has been jail, apparently after staging the cardboard buns after being unable to find anything worthy of a story. But skeptics say maybe the government pressured the station into saying the story was fake... So maybe it's still true? Either way, I think I'm steering clear, just to be safe.

    • 4 years ago
  • khsing
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    • China has suspended imports from several key US meat suppliers after months of international scrutiny over the safety of Chinese food and drugs.

    • 4 years ago
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  • AlexandraDorothy
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    • I was stranded at the Shanghai international airport. After six hours of waiting, the airline offered me and other stranded passengers a boxed meal consisting of a chicken foot, some cold rice, and shredded cabbage.

    • 4 years ago
  • shirin88
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    • The last (and only) time I was in China this was my first gourmet eating experience: a live snake was brought in, slit down its length, its blood drained in one cup and its guts placed in another cup full of premium liquor. This delicacy "double" shot cost $1,000.

      And to answer your questions, no I wasn't paying, and NO I didn't drink the shots of blood & guts. And YES, the rest of the meal was even crazier. It is truly a meal I will remember forever!

    • 4 years ago
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