China food safety head executed
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China executes the former head of its food and drug watchdog for corruption, state media says.
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A Chinese health official once hailed  as a hero for his work in fighting the spread of SARS has been  jailed for life for taking "huge" bribes from vaccine  distributors, state media said on Saturday.
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China will clamp down on foods tainted with illegal and excessive chemicals as it seeks to quell domestic and foreign alarm about toxins in meat, seafood and vegetables, the country's top agriculture official said.
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Former head of food and drug watchdog executed for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash.
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China sentenced a former top drug safety official to death and disclosed an investigation into cellphone batteries after one reportedly exploded, killing a man.
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A former department head at China's drug regulation agency was sentenced to death Friday on charges of bribery, as U.S. regulators ordered a recall of three more Chinese-made products deemed dangerous to children.
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China is to put in place a system allowing the recall of unsafe or unapproved food products following a series of health scares that have led to illnesses and deaths, state media reported on Tuesday.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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China executed Zheng Xiaoyu for taking bribes to approve untested medicine as Beijing scrambled to show that it is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.
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China sentenced a man to death and jailed another 28 people for up to life on Tuesday for their roles in a massive slavery and child labor scandal involving scorching brickworks.
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BEIJING, Sept. 25 -- The Communist Party chief of Shanghai was fired Monday in the highest-level purge of a Chinese official in more than a decade. Analysts called the dismissal a move by President Hu Jintao to root out corruption and consolidate his own power.
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China has secretly executed a man who protested against the controversial Pubugou dam project, his lawyer says.
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China executes a prominent Christian sect leader after he was convicted of murdering rivals, reports say.
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To many Americans, the execution last week of Chinaâs former top food and drug official may seem extreme, but severe sanctions for bribe-taking have a long and bloody history.
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Chinese regulators acknowledged for the first time that two Chinese companies had âengaged in some misconductâ in the way they labeled and sold a poisonous ingredient.
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BEIJING, May 29 -- The disgraced head of China's drug administration was sentenced to death Tuesday for accepting what a court described as "huge bribes" to approve faulty medicines, including a batch of antibiotics that killed six patients and sickened 80.
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China is preparing to put in place its first recall system targeting unsafe food products amid growing international alarm over the quality of the country's exports, state media reported Tuesday.