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China’s ex-food and drug chief executed


BEIJING - The former head of China’s food and drug watchdog was executed on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, the former director of China’s State Food and Drug Administration, was executed on Tuesday morning, following the approval of China’s Supreme People’s Court, Xinhua said.

China Says Halting Fake Medicine Will Take 5 Years


July 10 (Bloomberg) -- China, facing international criticism over the quality of food and drug exports, said it will take five years to stamp out production of fake medicine and that the trend in safety ``isn't promising.''
``The foundation of the work is still weak,'' Yan Jiangying, the Food and Drug Authority's deputy policy director, said at a press conference on China's five-year plan for food and drug safety in Beijing today. ``We aim to improve the mechanism for monitoring, strengthen the legal structure for enforcement, enhance the system of detection, and effectively end production and sales of fake food and medicines.''

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