| 1 | For instance, inferior-quality medicines not only aggravate a patient' s condition, but also tend to threaten his life and, what' s worse, to result in his death. | |
| 2 | The former boss of the dairy company at the centre of China's tainted milk scandal has gone on trial charged with selling fake or substandard products. | |
| 3 | The new accusations are explosive at a time of public outrage in China over a string of deaths blamed on tainted milk, shoddy medicines and other faulty products, AP commented. | |
| 4 | China's food safety woes date back to at least 2004, when 13 infants in coastal Fujian province died of malnutrition after being fed shoddy formula that had little nutritional value. |