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Abstract One: Everything thats fit to eat Updated: 2012-05-10 07:28 ByWang Hongyi in Shanghai ( China Daily) Comments() Print Mail Large Medium Small分享按钮 0 0 Wu Heng, a graduatestudent at Fudan University, shows a website on food safety. YONG KAI /FORCHINA DAILY According to the story, US president Theodore Roosevelt threw his breakfast sausages out of the window after reading about conditions in Chicagos meatpacking industry. His reaction to Upton Sinclairs book The Jungle, an expose of conditions in the industry at the turn of the last century, also apparently contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Now Chinese webmaster Wu Heng is hoping to draw the same attention to food safety issues here. The site he set up with 33 other volunteers, Zhi Chu Chuang Wai (), which means throw out of the window, attracted so many visitors on May 3 that it crashed due to traffic overload. Over the past week, the website attracted about 2 million visits. We had to change the server overnight to cope with it, said Wu, 26, a third-year graduate student majoring in history at Fudan University in Shanghai. Roosevelts act of throwing his sausage out of the window became a water shed in the history of food safety. I hope my website can play a role as well in raising the alarm in our countrys food safety, said Wu. It took Wu and other volunteers one month to research and set up the database for the website, which went online last June. During the research process, volunteers read more than 17,000 news article sand made more than 2,400 entries into the database, tracking media reports of food safety issues since 2004. It received an average of 10,000 visitors a day just 10 days after its launch. I had thought tainted food was an issue far removed from my own life, but its not, he said, recalling his reading of a news report on a food safety scandal about beef. As it happens, rice with braised beef is Wus favorite dish. After reading that, I was shocked and angry, Wu co