Beijing Olympic Games, the inspection and quarantine agencies will use the monitoring network to have real-time monitoring over each product to guarantee food safety," Sun Bo, an official at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told reporters recently. But basic questions remain over how food safety will be assured during the Games, not least the safety of meat, which has been a focus of concern over the possibility that residual drugs in animal feed could cause positive doping tests. An industry source in China said that Aramark had come under pressure from Beijing Olympic organizers to drop its initial choice of supplier — a foreign firm — in favor of domestic partners, as a matter of pride for China. In Beijing, confusion over designated suppliers abounds as organizers trip over themselves to assure Olympics food safety, without implying that food for the general population is sub-par. But after demonstrating the production process — giant hogs hanging from hooks, then eviscerated before circular saws went to work butchering the meat — organizers admitted that these processing plants were not necessarily Olympic meat suppliers. read more
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