June 10, 2007 – Just six weeks after receiving a death sentence, convicted one-time head of the Chinese FDA, Zheng Xiaoyu, exhausted his appeal of the sentence and was executed soon afterwards. Meanwhile, regulators from the food and drug safety bureaucracies took a new, conciliatory tone toward the problem of food and drug safety in a press conference. Instead of denying that there was any problem - their theme in recent months - they emphasized the difficulty of getting a handle on the problem and the steps they are taking to deal with it. More details...
