Pardon Me If I Laugh Now
On the surface, the arrest of 774 people sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Pardon me if I laugh about this. While it’s nice they are “cracking down” on the food suppliers, maybe they should focus on fixing the problem rather than pointing fingers. Arresting a few people here and there will not stop the problem.
China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people in a crackdown on substandard goods, part of ongoing efforts to calm international worries over the quality of the country’s products.
The General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said the arrests were the result of 626 criminal investigations nationwide into the manufacture and sale of fake or substandard food, medicine or agricultural products between August and mid-October.
“All local authorities and relevant departments have maintained a high-pressure attitude toward their crackdown on the illegal activity of producing and selling fake products,” the AQSIQ, one of China’s main quality control agencies, said on its Web site.
Too bad all the arrests are for making fake or substandard food. When will the get around to cracking down on all of the plants that paint toys with lead based paints? When will they get around to stopping the flow of the crap coming into our country?
If I remember correctly though, those people are not arrested, they just disappear.
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