The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death May 29 after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes.
Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as director of China’s Food & Drug Administration from its founding in 1998 until mid 2005, was detained in February as part of a government investigation into the agency that is supposed to be the nation’s food and drug watchdog.
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