mixed feelings

Zheng Xiaoyu, the former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration, was executed July 10 for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash. He became the highest ranking Chinese official ever to be put to death.


as a result of faulty approval for unsanitized medicine, 14 people died and hundreds are estimated to be injured.

among the dead: 6 year old liu sichen

about to start elementary school with a brand new pink backpack. given medication to combat a tonsil infection.

among the injured: 5 year old du haipeng

given the medication for a sore throat, fell into a coma for 22 days and no longer speaks "very often"


we often speak of an eye for an eye, but do we really mean it? should the director of China's FDA been executed for his mistake?

source: for 2 children, ban of a drug came too late