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No, not an American FDA official, a former Chinese State Food and Drug Administration director was executed. Why? Under his “tenure his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake.” Zheng Xiaoyu lied, and at least 10 people died. The punishment, execution.

China’s state television and the official Xinhua News Agency said that China had executed Zheng Xiaoyu the former State Food and Drug Administration director.

Zheng Xiaoyu managed China’s operation to review and approve food and drugs from 1998 until 2005.

During Zheng’s tenure his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake, and the drug-makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals, according to previous state media reports. One antibiotic caused the deaths of at least 10 people.

Zheng, 63, was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth $832,000 when he was in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration.

At the time of his conviction, nearly all China watchers predicted that his sentence would be downgraded to life imprisonment, … [snip]

This execution was a needless act of cruelty to assuage the fears of the west about Chinese-made products and to “save face” for the Chinese leadership. [snip]

So China, to lesson its own shame and to regain its market share, heartlessly executed a bureaucrat whose crime was looking the other way for less than a million dollars. (Peace and Freedom)

That’s China for you. Don’t get your prescriptions filled there, or buy toothpaste, or eat fresh produce, or …

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