Professor Li Keji of Beijing University

Professor Li made himself under the spot light after he made a statement at a public event sponsored by Maotai, a top Chinese liquor producer, affirming that additives such as Melamine and Plasticizer were safe for human consumption.

It's no secret that many Chinese liquor is blended by industrial material. However, it has been unthinkable to the public until recently that even top level brand, such as Maotai, and Jiugui (drunk ghost) did the same. Also it had been a secret on how to make a one year liquor taste like 60 years liquor, in other words, how to make the liquor taste 'rich (thinker and heavier)'. Both 'Jiugui' and 'Maotail' have been tested to contain unreasonably high volume of plasticizer.

Professor Li argued that tea, coffee and cell phone signals are all cancer causing sources, and that melamine and plasticizer are also cancer causing sources. If people can drink tea, than they can drink plasticizer. Professor Li also challenged the safety standard published by the Health Department on plasticizer in food. "All experiments so far were on rats, and the data were scaled to human," said Li, "before a human experiment on plasticizer, the standard was not usable."

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Chen Junshi of Chinese CDC

Mr. Chen Junshi is the Director of the Nutrition and Food Safety Institute of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and prevention. Chen is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Chen has been involved in almost every food related scandal:

• Chen is the main advocate of iron-fortified soy sauce. In reality, the method carries potential elevated risk of cancer, and the entire campaign has been driven by business interests. Without adequate study on side effects of iron-fortified soy sauce, Chen cited practice of iron-fortified flour as scientific proof. As a matter of fact, long term effect of food fortification is still a controversy in academia.
• Chen is the main advocate of genetic engineered (GE) Golden Rice in China. In a meeting organized by the Chinese CDC Fortification Office, but sponsored by BASF in 2009, Chen employed dated, totally meaningless, figures (11% Chinese children suffers from VDA) to steer public opinion by creating fear, uncertainty and doubts.
• In the wake of melamine poisoned milk, Chen commented: 'although thousands [note by blogger, millions were impacted, thousands were hostilities to surgically remove kidney stones. Chen lied here] children were impacted, only a few actually died. It's really not a big situation warrants response from the regulatory agencies [headed by Chen himself].' When many infants died after using fake milk in Fuyang, Anhui, Chen stated, 'it's not poisoned milk, just fake milk without enough nutrition, therefore not a food safety issue.'
• When some reporters and experts alerted the society of sewage oil (recollected cooking oil from sewage system) in the food industry, Chen disputed it that it was technically impossible to mass manufacture cooking oil from the sewage. Now it is proved that such mass manufacture existed and is traceable in almost all cooking oil retailed in China, not only small restaurants, but also upscale restaurants and major household brands.
• When there is no business interests, Chen opposes government regulation in general. Talking about consumers's food safety awareness, Chen commented that as long as they stick to products of good international brand name, there is little to be worried. The comment itself is not far from the reality in China. However, it is a disservice to ordinary Chinese people who can't afford brand name products, and an irresponsible attitude as a chief government official in food safety in China.

Chen Junshi's title includes Director of National Food Safety and Risk Assessment Expert Committee, and Director of National Food Supplement Academic Committee (a industrial association), which is a clear conflict of interest.

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Professor Chen Xingliang of Beijing University

Professor Chen Xingliang is the Chair of the Academic Committee of the Law School of Beijing University. Vice Chair of Chinese Criminal Law Association, Vice Chair of Chinese Judicial Procedure Association.

As a full time tenured professor in a public university, and not a practicing lawyer, Chen took bribe from criminal organization and offer obviously biased opinion in the form of amicus curiae in the Changshu migrant farmer self-defense case. The act was uncovered when an article authored by Chen was published by the Post of People's Court.

Professor Chen's act is particularly egregious in this case because he knowingly put a few innocent defenseless migrant workers behind bars. Professor Chen must have strong hearts, to frame people with names, faces, families and kids, who walk and talk in such a splendid way. Pocketing from bad policy aside, not even every corrupt officials are willing to put harms on real people.

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Professor Huang Yusheng of People's University of China

Professor Huang Yusheng is the deputy director of Criminal Law Center at the People's University of China.

In the Huang Jing case of 2008, Huang advocate Huang, a consumer, committed crime when asking for a proper compensation from a computer manufacture ASUS on a flawed product. ASUS uses 'engineering edition' CPU in their consumer computers. Engineering edition CPU are flawed CPU released by Intel for testing purpose. They should have been destroyed, instead of entering the market.

In April 2011, Professor Huang spoke through CCTV that some people conspired to overthrow the government with their opinions posted online 'with one gentle click of the mouse'. The talk was used to justify recent crackdown on online speeches. More than 1000 bloggers were arrested and hundreds of websites were shut down.

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Professor Fan Chongyi of CUPL

Professor Fan Chongyi (b. 1940) is the Director Procedure Law Center at the China University of Political Science and Law.

A new revision of the Chinese Criminal Procedure Law was passed by the National People's Congress on March 14, 2012. The law granted police authority to detain suspects without notifying their families. Many legal experts and civil right activists opposed this revision because it essentially make secret detention a lawful practice. Secret detention in name of national security has been a common practice to lock away anyone the police do not like. Last year, artist Ai Weiwei was secretly detained for several month because of his opinion on the construction quality of some public schools. A Beijing resident was secretly detained for several months because her son killed police in revenge after being abused by police. She was not released until her son was executed.

Fan argued that secret detention does not take place in China. Fan further said it was necessary to secretly detain enemies of the State. Rotten Index: ♣♣