Sorry if this has been discussed already, or would be better suited to the politics forum.
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Summary: Former head of State Food and Drug Administration in China sentenced to death for accepting bribes to approve scores of useless/dangerous drugs.
I'm not really sure what my take is (I don't even have a strong stance for/against the DP). The cynic inside me says this is a PR move by the Chinese government after the recent pet food disaster, and that this wouldn't happen solely if it killed some of their citizens--but some US citizens lost their pets so it's important to appear to be doing something. It's possible it will get whittled down to a long prison term. I'm not sure how common the death penalty is in China.
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Thirteen babies died of malnutrition in 2005 after being fed powdered milk that contained no nutritional value.
[/ QUOTE ] Kinda pissed me off. It seems pretty hard to produce a food item and not
accidentally have some nutritional value to it.
Should he get the death penalty for this? What about the manufacturers of all the drugs/food/toothpaste?