[Milwaukee_Guy]

Not too harsh a sentence considering the pain and lingering deaths the Chinese food and drug industry has imposed on consumers worldwide.

In reality this is just a classic case of scapegoating by the ChiCom government.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

String ‘em up Ping!

[redgolum]

Wow! This is really getting interesting.

[Larry Lucido]

His crime: Getting caught.

[mewzilla]

Not too harsh a sentence considering the pain and lingering deaths the Chinese food and drug industry has imposed on consumers worldwide.

It's also a good way to shut him up.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

OASIS Refusals by Country for April 2007

China Mainland - 257

http://www.fda.gov/ora/oasis/4/ora_oasis_c_cn.html

[kidd]

He’s a scapegoat.

The entire Chinese industry is incapable of meeting even minimal Western standards for produce safety, product quality and pollution controls.

Zheng Xiaoyu will die, but the problem won’t go away.

Neither will other factors that allow the Chinese to produce goods at dirt cheap prices, including theft of intellectual property and use of prison labor.

This has been going on for years. A loss of American jobs didn’t cause any alarm, but when people’s pets start to die...then things get noticed.

Duncan Hunter is about 10 years ahead of everyone else on this. He’s called a “protectionist”. Since pets have started dying maybe the term takes on a new meaning.

[glorgau]

He’s a fall guy - unfortunately for him, the fall will come while a rope is around his neck.

[antiRepublicrat]

Even if it weren’t scapegoating, what did they expect? The government has absolute power, and in such a situation the temptation for those in the government to abuse their positions skyrockets. Yet another argument for a government of limited power (I’ve heard that concept before, where was that?).

[SlowBoat407]

No, no, you idiot! They were supposed to die slowly and mysteriously!

[HamiltonJay]

The full brunt of this won’t be felt for years.

YOu have had some human deaths in some nations from tainted imports, but there will be long term health effects for years, as people who were exposed to crap for lord knows how long have long term health problems down the road from them.

This is EXACTLY what happens when you have these idiotic “free trade” agreements with 3rd world nations with no oversight and no direct binational treaty, but large 3rd party run multi-national oversight organizations. Its predictable and mathmatically provable, this was the only result one couls expect from granting free trade status to largely corrupt and totalitarian nations.

[Minutemen]

former head of the State Food and Drug Administration

The ChiComs forgot to give the man a fair trial??

[KC_Conspirator]

The sentence, which was unusually harsh,...

Rueters are frickin morons. The standard punishment for taking bribes as a government official in China is death. This is normal there and is not viewed as harsh. Reuters forgets they are a communist regime.

[ulm1]

GOOD!!! They killed my dog .

[fight_truth_decay]

Chinese made Mr. Cool toothpaste is displayed for the camera at the control and registry office of the Ministry of Health in San Jose, Costa Rica Friday May 25, 2007. China on Wednesday, May 23, said it was investigating reports that the toothpaste containing a potentially deadly chemical had been exported to Central America, the latest in a series of scandals involving tainted Chinese products. China is preparing to put in place its first recall system targeting unsafe food products, state media said Tuesday, May 29, 2007, amid growing international alarm over the quality of Chinese exports. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert) Kent Gilbert: AP

Pet food ingredients, spiked with the chemical melamine and related compounds, have been blamed in the deaths of dogs and cats in North America. The U.S. government has stopped all Chinese toothpaste imports after reports that some products sold in Australia, the Dominican Republic and Panama were tainted with diethylene glycol, a chemical commonly used in antifreeze and brake fluid.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish from China labeled as monkfish because it might actually be pufferfish, which contains a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin.

The warning came days after three southern U.S. states banned imports of catfish from China because they contained traces of antibiotics the FDA says have never been approved for use in aquaculture.

The China Daily also said that the State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng's agency, plans to blacklist food producers who break rules.

The administration launched a nationwide campaign Monday on drug safety inspection, sending a total of 90 officials to 15 provinces over the next two weeks, the newspaper said.

The Chinese leadership also has been battling a dismal food-safety record within the country. China's Health Ministry reported almost 34,000 food-related illnesses in 2005, with spoiled food accounting for the largest number.

According to The Outlook Weekly , a magazine published by the Chinese government's news agency, a survey by the quality inspection administration found that a third of China's 450,000 food production companies had no licenses

Also, 60 percent of the total did not conduct safety tests or have the capability to do so, the survey found.

Source

[Marie]

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