Beijing, China (AHN)-In addition to keeping tabs on its 1.8 billion people, China will now begin tracking its vegetables.

In an attempt to ensure food safety during the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing is planning to give every cabbage, carrot and pea pod its own identity number and file.

If there is a "safety incident,"-most likely a likely reference to pesticide or pollutants in the soil-the vegetable's file can be immediately checked and its origins traced.

The stringent measures come after the environment group Greenpeace found banned pesticides and excessive levels of other chemicals in vegetables supplied from China.

The Beijing News reports that only "After going through inspections at the distribution center, standard and qualified vegetables can enter Olympic kitchens."

While, the city will need more than 5,000 tons of vegetables during the Olympics, mostly from Beijing and the northern Chinese provinces of Hebei and Shandong, the report made no mention of fruit.