Zheng Xiaoyu....
who was at some time or another ...
Head of the State Drug Administration from 1994 to 2008 and then from 1998 to 2003 Head of State Drug Administration and then finally from 2003 until 2005 State Food and Drug Administration ................
was found guilty of tainting products....
...a practice that can be common in Russia and China where companies substitute ingredients with either contrabanned substitutes in order to reduce costs or make profit which may have a direct consequence of ones health..in Russia some brands of Vodka are examples...
In May 2007 he was convicted of taking bribes and other corruption and of substituting diethylene glycol instead of glycerin in cough syrup that led to 40 deaths in Panama...
as a result and after an appeal for the severity of sentence was rejected due to bad image that endangered China with this crime
......... Zheng Xiaoyu.... was summarily executed by hanging.....................
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