True, there is no quality control. But as for buying eggs and meat, when the weather is cool I don't worry about it (natural refrigeration!). The meat and eggs are fresh, so they haven't been sitting there too long. But when it starts to get hot, I limit stuff I buy on the street to fruits and veggies and buy meats at a store with a cooler. But also, if you cook your food thoroughly most of the bacteria will be killed off. 

Boxed milk is completely different. That milk on the shelves is "sterilized" not "pasteurized" like we have in the states. So the boxed milk is "safe" in that it won't go bad sitting there (up to a year). But it isn't safe in the fact that it is full of chemicals and China is always recalling contaminated milk. Even when it isn't straight up poison, it doesn't offer any benefits like American milk does (remember the 'good for teeth, and bones, and hair' commercials?). 90% of Chinese people are lactose intolerant so they process the shit out of the milk which kills the lactates and everything else that makes milk good for a healthy body.  If you want good milk, check import stores for milk that is good only for "7 days, keep at 4 degrees." It is hard to find (I have only found it at Wal-mart and Metro) and it goes bad quickly, but as a heavy milk drinker I can't live without it. 

There's always a new scandal it seems.

The latest one is how your average fruit and vegetable ayi sprays all her produce with some type of thing in order to make it appear fresh.

Suggestions include leaving your vegies and fruits bathing in water for 20 minutes before eating or cooking them!

Try the ice creams that are smashed, frozen and unfrozen a thousand times, and from a year ago. There's a bacteria party in my ice cream, and everyone's invited!

if you cook, buy, wash them by yourself then its safe, if outside or in restaurants.......... God knows about it..........

Are you still walking around and breathing?

If the answer is yes: it can't be all that bad. You just have to be a little careful. Sniff your meat (not the pants pepperoni, goofball), wash your fruits and veggies and stick to the vendors locals buy from  

In the more than three years I was in China I got food poisoning... SERIOUS food poisoning twice. 

Once was my fault, once is still in question. I had two things that day. Seafood for lunch and Subway for dinner. Around 1:00 am I became violently ill and was TKOed for two days.

The time that was my fault I was using a BBQ, I KNEW I shouldn't have eaten that one chicken wing but decided to risk it. 

Oh... I use grape seed extract to wash my fruits and veggies. I get it at the natural food stores in the states, dont know in other countries. But a small bottle (like 10 ozs) lasts for freaking ever cuz you only use a drop in a quart of water and let it sit for a few minutes, rinse and use. It removes waxes and residual pesticides and dirt.... and possibly in China the... manure.  Im bringing a bottle with me.

I like the skinny ones, flip them over they look the same.

Not necessarily !

I don't know if it's the food...but some months after I moved here I got this condition that no doctor can explain so far...and I've been to so many...also in Europe. All of them say there's nothing wrong with me. But reading online seems to point to 'chronic fatigue syndrome'. Hmmm, my stomach is fine though, weird enough...

I don't think it is safe.