Made in China?

In the headlines today: China executed its former chief food and drug regulator today for accepting bribes to approve unsafe medicines as Beijing sought to salvage its export market's tarnished reputation.
Wow.
I knew China was in some hot water over the lack of regulation and the whole pet food thing really had me going crazy. But execution? That's pretty harsh. No wait. Very harsh.
In today's day and age, executing a government official is about as unheard of as a six-legged cow. But China ain't messing around here. This is their way of telling the world they are taking this matter very seriously.
And they should. The number of products that have hit the market lately making people and animals sick, even killing them is completely unacceptable. Zheng, who was executed earlier today was the former head of China's Food and Drug Safety administration and accused of accepting bribes, letting harmful products slip by..and into the States.
It is indeed a scary thought. So much of what we buy comes from all over the world. And I'm not just talking about Danish cheese.
We have no way of knowing what is safe and what isn't. And while a developing nation such as China survives on the the power of "made in China"...we shall sit here and wonder can we really trust anything anymore?

Kids in India have a funny saying that goes "sorry doesn't make a dead man come alive". While Zheng's execution was a big sorry to the world, so much damage has already been done.