By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Shanghai grad student Wu Heng hadn't planned to become a food activist but he couldn't stop himself after reading a news story about cooks slathering pork in chemicals to make it look and smell like costlier cuts of beef.
China's scandal-plagued food and drug agency defended itself Tuesday against media reports claiming it covered up problems with excessive lead in domestic supplies of spirulina, a popular algae-based health supplement.
The world should get ready for a new "Made in China" product - vaccines. China's vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world's poor and provide major new competition for the big Western pharmaceutical companies.
The world should get ready for a new "Made in China" product — vaccines.
The world should get ready for a new Made in China product _ vaccines.
BEIJING — China executed a former director of its food and drug agency yesterday 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.
BEIJING — China must step up its fight against shoddy food and drugs and the corrupt officials who have let them flourish or it faces social unrest and a further tarnished image abroad, senior party and regulatory officials said.
BEIJING — China must step up its fight against shoddy food and drugs and the corrupt officials who have let them flourish or it faces social unrest and a further tarnished image abroad, senior party and regulatory officials said.
BEIJING — China's pharmaceutical watchdog has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis in the latest move to hit the country's scandal-ridden drug industry.
BEIJING (AP) — A former department head at China's drug regulation agency was sentenced to death yesterday on charges of bribery, as U.S. regulators ordered a recall of three more Chinese-made products deemed dangerous to children.
