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China: Off with your head of food and drug agency!
This is what happens if you accept bribes to approve shady drugs in China:
“China executes ex-head of food and drug agency”
Zheng sentenced to death in May for taking bribes to OK substandard drugs”
July 10, 2007
via MSNBC
BEIJING - China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for approving fake medicine in exchange for cash, illustrating how serious Beijing is about tackling product safety, while officials announced steps to safeguard food at next summer’s Olympic Games.
Tighter safety procedures
Zheng’s death sentence was unusually severe even for China, which is believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, and indicates the communist leadership’s determination to confront the country’s dire product safety record.
Are we to believe that China is serious about improving food and drug safety? Or should this execution just make us really scared about how nasty the Chinese government can be when it’s trying to save face, not food…?
Tags: bribes, China, consumer safety, drug, execution, Food, Government and Politics, pharmaceuticals, responsiblechina
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