China is sentencing their FDA people to death because of dangerous products

[Robbien]

Beijing just sentenced its second State Food and Drug Administration official to death on corruption charges, for accepting bribes to approve dangerous drugs and products, according to the New York Times. Pharmaceutical companies allegedly paid Mr. Cao Wenzhuang $307,000, and paid Mr. Zheng Xiaoyu $850,000, to either speed or skirt the approval process for thousands of different drugs, many of which were counterfeited, deadly-dangerous, or both. Four other officials received long-term prison sentences for similar activities.

These events were at least in part influenced by increasing international shaming--in addition to the pet food and sea food scares, at least 100 people died in Haiti and the Dominican Republic from toxins in Chinese imported toothpaste.

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"This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an under-regulated sector," said David Zweig, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2007/07/deadly_corruption_has_new_mean.html#trackbacks

Yikes!

[whistle]

1. Now, that makes sense...lots of American dead pets, so kill the inspectors

....what about the incompetent American company executives and managers who accepted and perhaps even looked the other way on these products which added to their profit margins and bonuses? No accountability, no fines, no prison terms?

[cassiepriam]

3. In American they would have become billionaires.

[entanglement]

6. So you're suggesting that American executives were involved

in the import and inspection of these products and the eeevil Chinese didn't drop them from the sky into our homes to poison our pets? ;)

[whistle]

14. Ahhhaaaa, yes: i.e. WalMart Purchasing VPs; Colgate Brand development etc

[snappyturtle]

2. Whoa! They have speedy "justice"! nt

[TZ]

4. This is a PR stunt

Sorry, although I am in favor of strict regulation of products and in some cases approve of the death sentence and these guys were really scum, no doubt, it really turns my stomach to know that China is killing people to improve their reputation internationally. In other words, China is killing people to increase its trade standing.:puke:

[durrrty libby]

5. The death penalty must not be tolerated here, there, or anywhere

So this is live Earth Day

Save the planet, but not the people?


We are complicit and it makes us all barbarians

[patricia92243]

7. Very well spoken! It made me sort of sick to my stomach just to read about it. :(

[durrrty libby]

9. China must get along famously with boosh. They both love murder

Hey patricia, I think you will like this map, and it needs one more vote

to make the greatest page

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3360659

[malaise]

8. Maybe you need a similar PR stunt

at home although I don't support the death penalty anywhere.

[kickysnana]

10. Maybe it would work here...

:sarcasm:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1265862

[marions ghost]

11. Look at the potential for killing large numbers of people

that these businessmen criminals perpetrated. They should be put in prison and throw away the key. No I'm absolutely not in favor of the death penalty, but if you were put into a Chinese prison you might prefer it.

Let's not let our outrage at capital punishment obscure the fact that there is a very serious problem here. Societies everywhere DO have to get much MUCH tougher on white collar crime. Corruption kills. It is not victimless. People have a very mistaken notion that business criminals should get lighter sentences than street thugs. We need to change that--they need to get very long prison terms in average prison conditions.

[Annces]

12. Unbelievable

I am sure the government had some idea this was going on. And we are going there for the Olympics, for shame.

[NNN0LHI]

13. China actually gives the death penalty to millionaires

In China the death penalty is not reserved just for poor people like here in the good old USA.

Don

[WinkyDink]

15. Call me when China stops aiding the extinction of large mammals.