In China, Food Adulteration Brings A Sentence That's Not Peanuts

Chinese courts have handed down death sentences to two people who supplied the additive melamine to milk that injured and killed children who drank it.

We'll see what happens to the Georgia (US) corporate officials who knowing shipped contaminated peanut products traced to the ongoing national salmonella outbreak and food recall, though their plant was known to contain salmonella.

The toll in the peanut poisoning so far: at least eight dead, 500 sickened, including 250 children.

Far, far more people were sickened in China by the melamine scandal, but the death toll there was six - - two less than in the peanut poisoning so far in the US.