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Editorial
Nature 447, 613-614 (7 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/447613b; Published online 6 June 2007
Bad execution
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Abstract
China won't achieve a tenable drug regulation policy by hanging public officials.
The sentencing to death of Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), is a throwback to the nation's ugly past that will do little to further its professed goal of building a fair drug-regulation regime.Zheng was sentenced to death in a Beijing court on 29 May on charges of accepting bribes, two years after he he was sacked from the drug regulator.
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