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Article: Ex-head of China's FDA receives death sentence for taking bribes.(International)(Food and Drug Administration)
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- Adverse Event Reporting News
- Article date:
- June 4, 2007
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The disgraced head of China's equivalent of FDA was sentenced to death May 29 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, "The Washington Post" reported.
The sentence handed down to Zheng Xiaoyu, 63, former chief of the State Food and Drug Administration, was not unprecedented in China's long struggle against corruption. But it was unusually harsh and was interpreted as a signal from the government that it is determined to look after the public's interest.
Zheng's conviction, announced by the official New China News Agency and highlighted by ...