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More than 200 children are being treated in hospital with lead poisoning in north-west China after school chefs used inedible paint to decorate their food.

Eight people have been arrested after tests showed the food samples from a kindergarten in Tianshui City in Gansu province had lead levels that were 2,000 times over the national safety limit.

In total, 233 children from Peixin Kindergarten had high levels of lead in their blood after eating steamed red date cake and sausage corn bun.

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 59 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Sometimes China executes people for stuff like this.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If there were a crime which deserved the death penalty (there isn’t), intentionally poisoning more than 200 children would be it. It’s technically possible that they’re really negligent and stupid, but hiding the paint was definitely intentional and probably caused additional harm by delaying treatment.

[–] InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Yep.

2008 Chinese milk scandal

2 executed and 1 life in prison

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

good.

it's rare I give praise to China, this is probably the first and only time.

you would think if people were afraid of losing their own lives, shit like this would stop. unfortunately China (and all of Asia really) has a culture problem with "just following orders" even at the detriment of their own lives.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Sometimes, or sometimes they get a pass based on connections. Those aren't mutually exclusive, either; scapegoats have long been a useful political tool.