[the anti-liberal]

Each vegetable should come with a certificate certifying the composition of the soil it was grown in - tested and validated by an outside (as in 'outside of the country) organization.

The sellers need to provide on-the-spot testing of the quality and healthiness of each individual vegetable at the sale.

Consumers need to carry personal food quality testing kits for testing each vegetable independently after all of the foregoing before taking a single bite.

imo.

Also, how about providing every visitor a fashionable breathing mask? (Remember Michael Jackson?)

[kinoxi]

China's citizens have a reputation for not lining up in public places. As such, the city has designated the 11th of every month to promote the habit of waiting in line.

Uh...what?

[metmom]

"If we're hit by more food safety scares, we'll lose face as the Olympic host country."

Too late.

[biff]

Great, now if they can design an oxygen mask for the athletes that allows them to eat while keeping it on.

[familyop]

And what kind of fertilizer are they using?

Follow the “What’s living in Chen Village like?” link for an interesting anecdotal account written by a guest from the UK (Daniel Poon--author quoted below) who stayed in one place in rural China.

http://www.chenvillage.com/

What's living in Chen Village like?"

As for the toilets: during the hot summer you learn a lot about the lifecycle of insects when you use them. In winter, its too cold to notice the sanitary conditions. There is no sewage disposal, and anyway you wouldn't want to waste all that valuable fertilizer would you? Some time when the atmospheric conditions are right the whole place smells of organic waste. Oddly enough it is not as bad a smell as you might think, strangely wholesome. Not as bad as the occasional whiffs of raw sewage that you get walking down a road in a Chinese city.