30 May 2007 :

the former head of China's top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death  after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media. Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as director of China's Food & Drug Administration from its founding in 1998 until mid 2005, was detained in February as part of a government investigation.
The government said that while serving the agency he took bribes worth about $800,000 in exchange for approving drug production licenses.