Tainted Milk Crackdown. This Looks Promising
Further to my somewhat hyperbolic post yesterday on the tainted milk that has recently been “creeping back” into the market and the government’s belated enforcement efforts:
Three people have been arrested in China in a fresh crackdown on melamine-tainted milk products, police said Wednesday.
Zhang Wenxue, general manager of the Lekang Dairy Co. Ltd. in Weinan City, in Shaanxi Province, Zhu Shuming, a vice general manger of the company and a workshop director, and Ma Shuanglin, a milk powder dealer in Weinan’s Linwei District, were charged with manufacturing and selling food that does not meet hygiene standards, said Xu Qiang, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department. (China Daily)
That’s more like it. More of that, please, lots more.
But will they really ferret out all those that are responsible, including failed government officials? Or will this be another instance of scapegoat a few and hide the dirt under a rug?
I wonder how many episodes like this will occur until it reaches a tipping point and the people just won’t take it anymore.
No, probably not. But putting a few in jail and publicizing this might deter future assholes from doing the same thing. Maybe. A bit.
That’s pretty much all you can expect.