Comments on: China Hopes Games Will Boost Food Safety Reputation http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/07/china-hopes-games-will-boost-food-safety-reputation/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sat, 26 May 2012 16:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Billhttp://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/07/china-hopes-games-will-boost-food-safety-reputation/#comment-2516 Bill Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:06:00 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=22169#comment-2516 The "senior official" who expect a successful Olympics will help convince the rest of the world that China’s food exports are safe to eat is simply too naive. He/she really doesn't know how the world works.If there is zero incidents of food problems during the games, that would be considered the way it supposed to be, and nothing spectacular. Success in serving great food to athletes and officials during the game will give China a passing grade, no higher, as that is the standard. However, anything less will be consider to be a monumental failure.It takes a lot more than just one event to boost image of food from China. And it takes hard work. I have no doubt China wants to do the hard work, has the will, the resources, and the authority to do the hard work. I am just not sure about the skill. The “senior official” who expect a successful Olympics will help convince the rest of the world that China’s food exports are safe to eat is simply too naive. He/she really doesn’t know how the world works.

If there is zero incidents of food problems during the games, that would be considered the way it supposed to be, and nothing spectacular. Success in serving great food to athletes and officials during the game will give China a passing grade, no higher, as that is the standard. However, anything less will be consider to be a monumental failure.

It takes a lot more than just one event to boost image of food from China. And it takes hard work. I have no doubt China wants to do the hard work, has the will, the resources, and the authority to do the hard work. I am just not sure about the skill.

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