Chinese chemical companies evading the law, still actively pushing drugs

(Image via RSC.org)Another front page story in the New York Times today about blind spots in the global supply chain leading to devastating consequences in consumer product safety.
Chemicals Flow Unchecked From China to Drug Market
By Walt Bogdanich
New York Times
October 31, 2007
Pharmaceutical ingredients exported from China are often made by chemical companies that are neither [...]

Analyzing China’s ‘bad blood’

HIV-infected blood products for hemophiliacs.
Baby-killing milk powder.
Catfish laced with antibiotics.
Thomas the Tank Engine toys coated with lead paint.
Children-choking chewing gum
Cancer-causing egg yolks.
They sound like props out of a sci-fi horror flick, but in reality, they represent the most recent food and drug scandals to hit China.
Geoff Dyer analyzes the lack of accountability and transparency in [...]

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 [...]