China ex-food and drug chief executed
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_as/china_tainted_products"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070709/i/ra787216332.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=b7bBQ612ubSBymf7akf1gQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A vendor waits for customers at a market in Beijing, June 19, 2007. China risks damaging its global credibility and provoking social instability if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official said in a rare admission amid a series of scares over tainted products. REUTERS/Jason Lee" border="0" /></a>AP - China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country's wide-ranging problems on product safety.</p><br clear="all"/>

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