And we think we’ve got it bad!
US consumers may have a lot to think about when they visit the supermarket, what with pesticides in our fruits and vegetables and hormones in our meat.
But pity the poor Chinese consumer. Imagine what consumer protection is like in China if we hear frequent complaints about our FDA and EPA. The recent ongoing series of pet-food recalls in this country were, after all, the result of contaminations that originated in China. In fact, Reuters reports, “China’s citizens are treated to a near-daily diet of stories of mass food poisonings or tainted products, and the government is starting to take action.”
A Chinese official—Zheng Xiaoyu, a former head of the national food and drug agency, the equivalent of our FDA—was sentenced to death “for taking bribes in exchange for drug approvals.”
Now that’s what we call taking action!
