The owner of a Chinese kindergarten has been jailed for life after more than 200 children were poisoned by lead in the country’s worst food safety scandal for almost two decades. A total of six people were jailed on Friday for making or selling harmful foodstuffs by Lanzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Gansu province. Li Huifang, owner of the Peixin Kindergarten in Tianshui, was handed a life sentence and fined 500,000 yuan (US$75,000), while Zhu Jinglin, the principal, was jailed for 15 years…


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    3 days ago

    For those who dont want to read the entire article:

    Tl;dr they ordered paint NOT FOR CONSUMPTION and it was approved by upper management. Proceeded to dilute the paint and add it to food to make food look more apetizing. Paint ended up with lead content.