Top quality watchdog chief quits

Li Changjiang resigned as minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) yesterday, owning "responsibility for the milk food contamination".

The scandal saw another head roll with the sacking of Wu Xianguo, Party chief of Shijiazhuang, where one of the contaminated milk food producers, Sanlu Group, is based.

Contaminated baby milk food has claimed the lives of four infants and left about 53,000 others suffering from various urinary tract problems, including kidney stones.