The Canadian Globe and Mail just had this article about Beijing’s drug-safety scandal, reported from Harbin, China: Liu Sichen was a normal little girl in a Chinese kindergarten. She played the piano and danced and painted. She dreamed of being a star on television. From her small home by the railway tracks, she gazed up […]
Read MoreChina starts to take action, punitive and preventive, in response to the recent string of food safety scandals. From AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: As the recall of tainted pet food mushroomed into an international scandal, two of the largest U.S. food manufacturers put out a blanket order to their American suppliers: No more ingredients from China. The directive from Mission Foods Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc., made quietly this month, underscored consumers’ and […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: China’s former top drug regulator went on trial Wednesday accused of taking bribes to approve untested medicine, including an antibiotic that killed at least 10 patients last year before it was taken off the market. The case is one of several that have damaged confidence at home and abroad in […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “China is the source of most of the world’s fake drugs, experts say. In December, according to Xinhua, the state news agency, the former chief of China’s Food and Drug Administration and two of his top deputies were arrested on charges of taking bribes to approve drugs. The director, Zheng […]
Read MoreFrom OSC Analysis: Authoritative PRC leadership statements and commentary surrounding the annual plenary meeting of the party’s Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) suggest that the party’s current campaign against corruption has been intensified and is focused on curbing corruption at the lower levels of the party and the government.¬† The steady stream of reports in […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: An investigation into corruption at China’s drug-watchdog agency has exposed the government’s role in allowing shoddy medicines to thrive and is threatening to slow the drug-approval process in the country’s fast-growing pharmaceutical market. For years, China’s pharmacies and hospitals have been plagued by low-quality and fake medicines made by local […]
Read MoreThe opinion pages of Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily live by a credo that one of its editors has phrased thus: “Almost anything can be written. It just depends on how you write it.” That may or may not explain the sharp turn Southern Metropolis takes with the case of Xie Zhenhua’s political resurrection this week. […]
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