Food Safety Website Fuels Student's Fame

Driven by a sense of social responsibility, Wu Heng created a website to track China's food safety problem.

Wu, 26, is a graduate student majoring in history at Shanghai's Fudan University. In June 2011, Wu and 34 volunteers launched Zhichuchuangwai (www.zccw.info), which translates to "throw it out the window."

The website, which has recorded over 190,000 hits since being launched, has a database containing about 3,000 news articles on food safety and a map pinpointing the locations of China's food safety incidents.

In recent years, food safety has become a growing concern in China, as various deadly scandals such as toxic milk, tainted pork and dyed buns have been exposed by the country's media, sparking widespread fear.

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Source: China Daily