Burying the Problem
This makes me feel so much better:
China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
Seeking to address broadening concerns over food, the government also announced plans for its first recall system for unsafe products.
The developments are among the most dramatic steps Beijing has publicly taken to address domestic and international alarm over shoddy and unsafe Chinese goods — from pet food ingredients and toothpaste mixed with industrial chemicals to tainted antibiotics.
Mr. Zheng learns the hard way that you can’t put the toothpaste back into the tube.
What are you sqeamish for? This is how China solves most of its problems. What did you expect, that they’d wash his mouth out with soap? If it was Chinese soap, the result would probably be the same.