Professor Xu made this list for his pioneering role in introducing the clenbuterol, CLB into China after taking a short visit to University of Virginia. It would be classified as a mis-step in academic research, which happens all the time, if Professor Xu had not confessed to the media that his group intentionally hide the side-effect when introducing the toxic material to be used in animal feed in China. In 2009, he explained to the media that, while at the time of 1990s the government was promoting lean pig, they felt they "shouldn't tell the other side of the story. Had they wrote about the side-effect of CLB, they wouldn't be able to publish their papers".
After exposed by the Consumer Day event on March 15, 2011, CLB usages had fomented in the last 2 weeks to a national scandal, and amounted to the largest food safety incident following the melamine milk of 2008. The incident brought to light how a big meat producer along government officials ignored obvious signs of safety violations. Alike the Sanlun melamine milk case, when the New Zealand based Fonterra owns 43% of Sunlun Diary, this time the meat producer Shuanghui (Shineway Group) of Henan Province was heavily invested and held by the Goldman Sachs of the US. The common traits of the worst public safety incidents are scientist, government, and a foreign company.
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