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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Daily Lessons from Life 22 July 2018 - Worried abt China's hegemony!?

"Censors jump into action as China's latest vaccine scandal ignites

BEIJING: Chinese censors on Sunday (Jul 22) deleted articles and postings about the vaccine industry as an online outcry over the country's latest vaccine scandal intensified.
Regulators said last week that they had halted production of a rabies vaccine at a large pharmaceutical company in the northeast after finding fabricated records and other problems during an inspection.
It was just the latest in a series of health and safety scandals which have fuelled fear over the safety of basic food and medicine and anger at regulators asleep on the job.
China's censors and regulators struggled to stay abreast of the public's response, deleting posts on WeChat as state media tried to take control of the narrative.
On Sunday night China's Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) announced it had ordered all production stopped at the vaccine maker and launched an investigation.
Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology is China's second largest maker of the rabies vaccine and a subsidiary of a large publicly-traded vaccine maker.
Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said on Sunday that local regulators must "rapidly take action, do a complete investigation and announce authoritative information in a timely manner to pacify public anxiety".
CCTV listed questions the public needed answering and noted that the local regulator overseeing Changsheng had hung up on journalists' calls or declined to answer the phone.
A similar scandal erupted in Shandong in 2016, involving the improper storage, transport and sale of tens of millions of dollars' worth of vaccines - many of them expired.
For parents it also has parallels to China's most notorious incident of recent years. Some 300,000 children fell ill, six of them dying, in a 2008 case involving milk powder contaminated with melamine."
Some people r worried abt China becoming too rich n too powerful n starts to dominate n "conquer" the smaller nations.
For me, China has a lot of issues to work on if we can just, for a moment, put aside the obsession that "they" r VERY SUCCESSFUL un creating wealth n realised that their people cannot trust their government to handle health n food safety!!
Without health n food safety, what good is wealth? Especially when such malpractices affect their next generation?
With their next generation poisoned, will it's dominance, assuming it is dominant, last? Surely not!
For all the "progresses" China has made, if its government cannot ensure health n food safety, it will fall! It will fail!! Not doubts at all!!

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