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...While the latest laws have been touted as a tough approach to food safety, China has already shown that it will take extreme measures against prominent violators. In 2007 the country executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, for accepting $850,000 in bribes from drug companies. In January, a Chinese court sentenced two people to death in the melamine milk-poisoning scandal. But China's health ministry acknowledged over the weekend that the food-safety situation remains grim...
...North America were killed by eating food made from Chinese raw ingredients, also tainted with melamine. As last year's scandal spread, problems were found with Chinese-produced toys, tires, seafood and toothpaste. Even as the Beijing took extreme steps to solve the problem, such as executing Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, for accepting $850,000 in bribes from drug companies, it aggressively pushed back against the global concern over its exports. The Chinese embassy in Washington declared that it was "unacceptable for some to launch groundless smear attacks on China" over food...
...CORRUPTION $850,000 Value of bribes authorities say were accepted by Zheng Xiaoyu, China's former food-and-drug agency chief, in exchange for approving drug licenses, a crime for which he was sentenced to death 170,000 Number of licenses that Beijing says it is reviewing, most of which were granted during Zheng's tenure. At least 115 deaths worldwide have been linked to tainted drugs from China since...
...Vice-Minister accustomed to running a branch of China's government as his own virtual fiefdom, the sentence must have come as a surprise. On Tuesday, a Beijing court handed down a death penalty for Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), after he was convicted of dereliction of duty and accepting some $850,000 in bribes, according to local media reports. But while the severity of the sentence wasn't completely unprecedented-several senior officials have been executed for corruption in recent years including a deputy minister in 2000-it was still...
...Cabot: Kerry J. Dingle, Philip D. Dreyfuss, Richard E. Freeman, Xiaoyu Gu, Kamila M. Lis, Henry M. Rosenberg, Sixiao Xu, Oussama Zahr
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