An investigative report into the mass lead poisoning of hundreds of students and staff members at a kindergarten in Gansu province has revealed a host of safety and oversight violations, bribery and corruption, medical...
On Friday, a court in Hunan Province began hearing a landmark pollution lawsuit filed by a group...
At Marketplace, Rob Schmitz reports police obstruction and intimidation in Chengdu, where he was...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Amid concerns over food safety, China’s food and drug agency is defending itself against accusations of excessive lead in spirulina, a microalgae taken as a nutritional supplement. Lead ingestion can lead to defects in the...
Amid concerns about industrial pollution in China due to a recent case of water contamination in Guangxi, lead emissions from factories in Guangdong have poisoned 160 children. This is not the first case of lead poisoning. In...
A tenth of China’s farmland is seriously tainted by heavy metals, according to a senior government expert. From Reuters: Wan Bentai, the chief engineer for China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, said a survey...
Paul Mooney reports for the South China Morning Post on heavy metal contamination from industries such as e-waste recycling and textile manufacture. The pollution can devastate health and agricultural livelihoods, but those...
Hundreds of Chinese factories producing rechargeable lead batteries have been closed for fear of lead poisoning. From BBC News: About 74 people have been detained this year after reports that more than 100 people were affected...
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...
Twenty-four children are in the hospital in Anhui getting treatment for lead poisoning, and more than 200 have been affected, the result of living near an illegal battery factory, NPR reports: The official Xinhua News Agency...
Following is the latest installment in a series of posts by journalist Rachel Beitarie*, who will be sharing with us dispatches from her journey across rural China. In this post, Rachel visits the rural village Beiya, halfway...
More than fifty lead poisoning victims have been detained for six months in China after their bus was pulled over as they went for health checks. The Guardian reports: Police in Jiahe, Hunan province, blocked a bus carrying 53...
Pollution from a nearby factory has caused lead poisoning in almost 100 people in Sichuan, including 88 children. From AFP: Seven children — the youngest of which is just over one year old — are being treated in...
The Washington Post reports on another product safety issue for Chinese exports – lead in toys: OAKLAND, Calif. — Target Corp. said Tuesday it was pulling its Valentine’s Day “Message Bears” from...
Lead poisoning cases have stirred many Chinese to anger, as deaths and related illnesses have shaken the very foundations of their villages. From Barbara Demick for the Los Angeles Times: Now thousands of Chinese are trying to...
It has been announced that 15,000 Jiyuan residents will have to relocated after 1,000 children were discovered to have lead poisoning. From AFP: Authorities in central China plan to move 15,000 residents away from smelting...
From AFP: Nearly 1,000 children in central China have tested positive for lead poisoning in the latest environmental scandal to erupt in the nation’s smelting industry, state press said Tuesday. The news comes close on the...
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