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WU---THE FOOD SAFETY WARRIOR OF CHINA MADE A HISTORY OF HIS OWNIN THE WAY ONE COUNTRY SHOULD MANAGE FOOD SAFETY GIVING MOSTREASONABLE ACCESS TO INFORMATION OF PROBLEMATIC FOODS TO ITSCONCERNED CONSUMERS . ON MAY 2011 ALONE RECEIVED 404,000 VISITS,COMPARED WITH A DAILY AVERAGE OF 10,000 AT ITS INCEPTION OF THEWEBSITE ON PROBLEMATIC FOOD AT WWW.ZCCW.INFO-----WU S INSPIRATIONOF THE PROBLEMATIC FOOD S WEBSITE CAME FROM THE LATE U.S.PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT S REACTION TO PROBLEMATIC FOOD------- ALSO REFERRED TO AS ( Reference:health/txt/2012-06/04/content_457554.htm) QUOTE Food Safety Warrior A graduate student becomes the latest online phenomenon with hisInternet database of problematic food Wu Heng, a 27-year-old postgraduate student in historical geographyat Fudan University in Shanghai, never expected the food safetyinformationsharing website he created a year ago would go viral asit did in May. On May 11 alone the site received 404,000 visits,compared with a daily average of 10,000 at its inception. The website contains a 10-million-characterlong paper authored byWu on China's food safety situation and a map of China with regionsin different colors to indicate food safety hazard levels between2004 and 2011. The title of the paper is "Exchanging Feces to Eat: Food SafetySituation of China (2004-11)." According to Wu, "exchanging fecesto eat" indicates that everybody living in a corrupt food supplychain, including suppliers of problematic food themselves, wouldbecome the victim of someone else's wrongdoing. After a major scandal related to the use of waste leather scraps toproduce the gelatin used for drug capsules was exposed by the mediain early April, Wu wrote on his website that the paper he wrote oneyear ago was still relevant since there had been almost noimprovement in systematic monitoring. "An author should take his or her article' lasting relevance as thehighest compliment while my feelings are deep regret andhelplessness," Wu said. Wu's creation, Zhi Chu Chuang Wai (www.zccw.info), which means"throw it out of the window," was inspired by his own suspiciousfood poisoning experience. Wu used to order braised beef on rice asa takeaway meal almost every day at the low price of less than 10yuan ($1.58) per helping from an eatery next to his university. InApril 2011 Wu, who repeatedly brushed off his roommate's concernsabout the quality of the beef, was startled to read a news reportabout the widespread use of a potentially harmful additive thatlends pork the taste and appearance of beef. It was only then thatWu decided to launch his own campaign to heighten public awarenessof problematic foods. The name of Wu's website came from the late U.S. President TheodoreRoosevelt's reaction to problematic food. After reading a detailedportrayal of the unsanitary conditions and labor exploitation inChicago's meat-packing industry in Upton Sinclair's book TheJungle, the president reportedly threw his breakfast sausage outthe window. Roosevelt later invited the author to the White Houseand launched an investigation into the appalling conditionsdescribed. Legislation followed. In two months, Wu and 34 volunteers he recruited through theInternet combed the Web to find all reports on problematic foodsfrom reliable sources since 2004 and set up a database for thewebsite. It went online last June. Wu said that within 17 days he and the volunteers read through morethan 17,000 news reports of food safety scandals and found problemseverywhere. At the end of the research, more than 2,800 entries were put intothe database, which can be searched by using the locations of theincidents or types of hazards, such as expiry dates, illegaladditives, unlicensed producers, poor hygiene, and poor packagingquality. Adopting an approach similar to Wikipedia.org, Wu's website allowsvisitors to add new links to food safety news to its databasewithout registration. The website's volunteers will verify allcontributions later and can only delete irrelevant, unreliable orrepeated entries. Learning from the Darwin Awards, a tongue-in-cheek honor created torecognize individuals who contribute to human evolution by puttingthemselves unnecessarily in life-threatening situations, Wu set upa Darwin Award of Chinese Foods for the worst food scandal on thehomepage of his website. Website visitors can cast a vote from 10short-listed stories and a cash prize of 1.4 yuan ($0.22) ispresented to the first reporter of a food scandal. The token 1.4yuan prize will be awarded because 1.4 sounds like the charactersfor "dying together" in Mandarin Chinese.UNQUOTE. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Pre-painted Aluminum , Stainless Steel Coils for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Hot Dip Galvanized Steel Coil.
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