USOC to ship 25,000 pounds of food to China

Next time you go to a US supermarket and pick up a food package with a produced in China label give this some consideration.  This is from an article by Suzie Richards in The Retriever Weekly.

Recent reports have revealed that the United States Olympic Committee has been busy planning the team’s preparations for the summer games. The committee has announced that Team USA will not be eating the local Chinese food at this summers’ games, but instead 25,000 pounds of meat and other food will be shipped from America to the training camp at Beijing Normal University.

The decision comes in response to a food safety check carried out on Chinese foods. Dangerously high level of steroids were found in chickens and other food products. Continue reading “USOC to ship 25,000 pounds of food to China”