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LatestOfficials Dispute Severity of School Scandal Illnesses
China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday that nearly 500 students at Changzhou Foreign...
Tougher Rules Address Concerns Over Vaccine Safety
Following revelations of a scandal involving the distribution of $88 million worth of improperly...
Hundreds Ill at “Toxic School” Near Chemical Plants
According to state television broadcaster CCTV, hundreds of students at Changzhou Foreign...
The Children of China’s Cancer Slum
With pharmaceutical price gouging in the news thanks to the arrest of Turing Pharmaceutials CEO...
Progress and Challenges for China’s Public Health
Two new reports published in The Lancet look at recent progress in China’s public health...
China’s Child Mortality Down Two-thirds Since 1990
Citing a report by independent charity Save the Children, Xinhua reports that the mortality rate...
China Pushes Child Safety Seats to Reduce Death Toll
Bloomberg reports that China’s Ministry of Health will soon launch a national campaign...
Customs Officials Seize HK$1 Million Worth of Infant Formula
With persistent health and safety issues with China-made infant formula, parents have taken advantage of trips to Hong Kong and abroad to stock up on supplies for their infants. As a result, the global supply has taken a hit and...
45 Arrested in HK For Smuggling Baby Powder
Hong Kong customs officials arrested 45 people late last week on charges of smuggling baby milk formula into mainland China, after a new emergency law took effect on March 1st which limits passengers to no more than two cans...
China Investigates ‘Golden Rice’
As China tightens food safety regulations amid various accusations, including the discovery of a cancer-causing toxin in baby formula, China is now investigating claims that genetically-modified ‘Golden Rice’ was tested on...
Nursing Mothers Stage Feed-In
Amid the controversy of forced abortions and China sending its first woman into space, women’s issues have once again become the focus of media attention. The Global Times reports 30 mothers staged a breast-feeding flash...
Cancer-causing Toxin Found in Chinese Baby Formula
China’s scandal-ridden dairy industry is again the focus of public scrutiny. This time, aflatoxin, a cancer-causing element, was found in samples of Nanshan Bywise infant formula. From Reuters: Five batches of Nanshan Bywise...
Students Seek Alternatives to College Entrance Exam
In the New York Times, Edward Wong writes about the rigors of the life-changing gaokao, or college entrance exam, which determines the future of every Chinese high school student. With the intense pressure of the test and its...
Safety Scandals Give Foreign Dairies a Boost
With the safety of dairy products, especially infant formula, constantly under question in China, foreign brands are finding an opening into the China market. From Reuters: The latest foreign bet comes from Danish-Swedish dairy...
Focusing on Short-Sightedness in China
At The Wall Street Journal, Alex Frangos examines the fad gripping Hong Kong for wearing lenseless glasses as fashion accessories, often in conjunction with contact lenses. The no-glass frames also don’t blind the wearer...
Shanghai Schoolchildren Getting “Very Fat Very Fast”
The past ten years have seen a surge in obesity rates among Shanghai’s schoolchildren, according to a Global Times report: Obesity among Shanghai schoolchildren has increased 24.4 percent in the last decade, according to a...
Chinese Official Suspended Over Lead Poisoning
Following the discovery that over 200 children suffer from lead poisoning from a nearby battery factory, a local environmental official in Anhui has been suspended. From NPR: Zhao Yiping, the head of the local environmental...
