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China's quality regulator resigns...Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, September 22, 2008 11:06 PM
 Former Quality Czar of China Li Changjiang got milk ... and Wang Yong gets the worst job in the world A Dow Jones story on the The Wall Street Journal:
Especially when you consider this item from Flex News, a food industry website:
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Comments on China's quality regulator resigns...
It is a positive improvement that official resign to take responsibility.
Food and drink scandals were on the list of topics which could not be reported during the Olympic Games.
This latest scandal demands that China continues liberalising its press. A free and independent media does the job of quality control, and unlike the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine cost the authorities nothing, financially at least.
More heads will likely roll as the scandal widens.
The Flex News article must be misprinted. There is no way that China could export 12 million tons of dairy products in June, that's about half of the total annual output of the Chinese dairy industry. More likely its 12,000 tons.
this man should have gone years ago.
But these guys step down, are fired, or get replaced and then move on to other "lower profile" jobs such as in the case of the Shanxi Governor/ex-Beijing Mayor.
They never really suffer from their mistakes and therefore the "people" never see improvements
I agree with the above comment, however, you need to understand that nothing really works, not even death sentence.
Everyone is a sitting duck.
Shows that you don't really need democracy for accountability. Just a big educated middle class. Good improvement.
@abde: and an unfettered media to act for the good of the public as far as checks and balances. After all, where would an educated middle class have gotten their info from?
Oh, wait...the media here isn't and guidelines have already been drawn as to how to "cover" this story...
@Hunxuer
Wait, you are still unsatisfied with how much the media exposed and fanned this scandal? Even with all the public enraged and demanding a solution and losing confidence in domestic brand and food? Do you think that unless there is an armed rebellion against the government over milk formulas, there is censorship at work? Really, what more of an effect on the public do you want the media to have?
By the way, I am sure in a democracy, businesses can't pay for favorable coverages.