Wedding Guests Latest Food Safety Victims in China
By: Becky Bracken
Published: July 6, 2011

A trip to the hospital is an increasingly common end to a wedding celebration in China. Just the latest chapter in China's abysmal food safety record, is the sad trend of guests falling ill following lavish wedding dinner banquets. Most recently, 286 out of 500 wedding guests in Wufeng were hospitalized after eating pork contaminated with clenbuterol, a steriod that makes pigs grow faster and fatter. 
About an hour into the meal, according to a Los Angeles Times report, children began vomiting, a pregnant woman collapsed and others "grabbed their chests." 
During a May Day holiday weekend, 192 people from two weddings elsewhere had to be hospitalized from food poisoning. 
China has battled highly publicized food safety catastrophes in the past several months including exploding watermelons and toxic baby formula. 
Chinese officials appear unable to get a handle on food safety, even after threatening to execute food safety criminals.