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.
“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes, they all would have tested positive for drugs!” Frank Puleo, an American caterer, told the New York Times.
The USOC has been asking athletes which foods they would like to see on the menu in Beijing. According to reports, Baltimoreans on the team, including swimmer Michael Phelps, have requested Maryland crabs and crab cakes. Therefore, the local Chesapeake Bay may well be providing the nutritional requirements for the top American athletes in Beijing this summer.
I can only hope that our government and the corporations importing this food into this country are doing their due diligence, but I am not holding my breath. I recently bought a bunch of one portion packages of frozen fish that were on sale at a local St. Louis supermarket. When I got them home I realized the country of origin was China. Maybe it is ignorant on my part, but I’ve been unable to eat them. I will likely just throw them out.
I’m inspecting food labels much more closely these days.
It is probably a wonder that we are alive and kicking at all!!