Food safety a challenge for Beijing Olympic Committee.

Food safety a challenge for Beijing Olympic Committee: With China's food supplies under scrutiny following a series of health and safety scares, Chinese officials are taking no chances for the Olympic Games this August. At the headquarters of China's product safety watchdog, a bank of screens shows real-time video monitoring of food-related facilities that can receive signals from 1,000 facilities at one time. Reuters reports that China also has launched a massive coding system incorporating everything from vegetables to drinking water after a wave of scandals highlighted corruption in oversight bodies and a willingness among manufacturers to flout standards in order to maximize razor-thin profit margins. 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.