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FOOD DRINK NUTRITION DIET: FOOD: MEAT:
Skinny Pigs, Poison Pork: China Battles Farm Drugs
Skinny Pigs, Poison Pork: China Battles Farm Drugs
By ALEXA OLESEN
The Associated Press
Monday, January 24, 2011; 5:25 AM
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2011/01/24/AR2011012401154.html
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BEIJING -- It has shown up frequently in pork but also in snake dishes in
south China and beef from the far western Xinjiang region, sending diners
to the hospital with stomach aches and heart palpitations.
Clenbuterol, known in China simply as "lean meat powder," is a dangerous
drug that's banned in China yet stubbornly continues to pop up in the food
supply, laced into animal feed by farmers impatient to get their meat to
market and turn a profit.
The drug accelerates fat burning and muscle growth, making it an
attractive feed additive, sports performance enhancer and slimming drug,
but overdoses can cause illness and, in rare cases, death. Tour de France
champion Alberto Contador is among the athletes, who have tested positive
for the drug, though he disputes the results, claiming he unknowingly
ingested the drug by eating tainted filet mignon.
How much of China's meat supply is tainted with clenbuterol is not clear.
The government won't say how many cases of contaminated meat or related
illness occur every year. But industry watchers say that, in the
countryside at least, use of the drug is rampant.
In a country with an appetite-killing roster of food safety issues - from
deadly infant formula to honey laced with dangerous antimicrobials and
eggs dyed with cancer-causing pigments - the problem of
clenbuterol-tainted pork is widely considered to be one of China's biggest
food threats.
AP Enterprise: Bad Food Can Harm Innocent Athletes
What a mouthful: Tainted meat puts innocent athletes at risk of failing
doping tests
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By JOHN LEICESTER
AP Sports Writer
PARIS
January 24, 2011
(AP)
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=12745838
When cycling's top rider, Alberto Contador, failed a drug test at the Tour
de France last year, he joined a long list of athletes who have blamed
positives on something they swallowed from veal to whiskey to toothpaste.
Whether cycling officials think Contador is lying with his claim that
tainted steak caused him to flunk his dope test will soon become clear.
Spain's cycling federation says it should announce a decision within days
or weeks.
Whatever the ruling, Contador's case highlights a growing concern among
anti-doping scientists, coaches and athletes around the world. Even if the
story given by the three-time Tour de France winner sounds tired to
outsiders, there is a growing body of opinion that the drug Contador
tested positive for clenbuterol can, in fact, be consumed unwittingly
from eating bad meat. Unless anti-doping rules are changed, scientists
warn, there's a risk that innocent athletes who did not dope could be
unfairly punished.
Among the prominent people to raise questions about clenbuterol testing is
Zhao Jian, deputy director-general of China's Anti-Doping Agency.
Clenbuterol burns fat and builds muscle. That makes it attractive for both
dopers and farmers, who use it to bulk up livestock. In China, in
particular, its illegal use in farming is well documented. The Chinese
nickname for the drug "lean meat powder" speaks of its muscle-building
properties.
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