Beijing, 26 nov (EFE).-the Chinese courts condemned 113 people, including 77 servants to various prison terms for his involvement in the adulteration of pork with el chemical clenbuterol, which can cause cancer.
The official Xinhua News Agency disseminated today statements, issued on the evening of Friday and that they vary from several years in prison until punishment death conditional on good behavior.
The chief culprit, Liu Xiang, was sentenced to death with a trial period of two years in which will be able to fail over a lesser sentence if he shows good behavior, according to the judgment of the superior court of Henan province in central China and one of those affected by the adulteration of pork in March.
The illegal Liu factory produced the clenbuterol, a carcinogenic chemical added to feed for pigs to produce a meat more lean.
His factory was intercepted on March 25 in the city of Xianyang in Henan and the authorities inculparon Liu and his collaborator, Xi Zhongjie, sentenced to string perpetua.
Liu and Xi invested approximately 6,000 euros each in 2007 to produce clenbuterol and sell it to pig traders to obtain more benefits.
In March, the sentenced two had sold more than 2,700 kilograms of the chemical in eight provinces including Henan, Shandong and Jiangsu, with revenues of about € 750,000.
According to the statement of the tribunal, all officials involved in the scandal, including of health inspection and food safety, have received “severe” penalties for negligence and abuse of power, with between three and nine years in prison.
Punishments for involved 36 farmers were more lenient, with penalties ranging from probation to one year in prison.
Forgery scandal also splashed Shuanghui Group, the largest processor of meat from China, which suffered a boycott at the national level and an inspection of the food safety authorities, as reported in March the State China Central television (CCTV).
The clenbuterol is a chemical bronchodilator whose use is forbidden to feed livestock and that can cause nausea, dizziness, headaches and heart palpitations in humans. EFE
