- Mayor and Party Secretary of Shi Jiazhuang City (where the poisonous milk manufacturer Sanlu Group is located) removed from office.
- Head of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the PRC resigned.
- Number of infected children exceeds 50,000. Some expects more.
- Children’s hospitals around the country flooded with parents and their babies.
A great number of people are not satisfied with the officials’ dismissal and resignation and call for criminal penalties.
According to Article 144 of the PRC Criminal Law,
“A person who mixes the food to be produced or sold with toxic or harmful non-food stuffs, or sells the food mixed with toxic or harmful non-food stuffs that he knows clearly, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and concurrently or independently, to a fine of not less than half and not more than two times of the sale; if a serious food-poisoning accident or any other serious disease caused by food-borne bacteria is caused, thus seriously harming human health, to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years and concurrently to a fine of not less than half and not more than two times of the sale; and if death of a person or an especially serious harm to human health is caused, shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Article 141 of this Law (to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, life imprisonment or death and concurrently to a fine of not less than half and not more than two times of the sale or confiscation of property).”
Sources: http://cq.cqnews.net/sz/zwyw/200809/t20080924_2305965.htm
