Li Changjiang, director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, stepped down with the approval of China's State Council and was replaced by Wang Yong, according to the state-run New China News Agency.
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Li Changjiang, left, has resigned as China's chief quality supervisor, an apparent move by the government to respond to the tainted-milk scandal, in which tens of thousands of infants have been sickened by melamine-laced milk powder
Parents at the Chengdu Children's Hospital play with their ill baby, who drank tainted milk powder and now suffers from kidney stones. Nearly 13,000 infants have been hospitalized in China after drinking bad milk, and four infants have died
A farmer washes away excess milk released at the end of the day at a milk farm in Yuanshi, northern China's Hebei province, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. The recent tainted milk supply scandal has dried up demand for milk across the province, leaving farmers to vex about the high cost of keeping the milk cows.
Chinese food safety officers inspect Mengniu branded milk at a supermarket in Fuyang, China, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. China's food safety crisis widened after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies - prompting stores, including Starbucks, to yank milk from their shelves.
A farmer pours the fresh milk at a dairy farm in Shenyang, China Saturday Sept. 20, 2008. China is seeking to shore up public confidence weakened by a milk safety scandal, with the president scolding officials for negligence and government agencies promising adequate supplies of uncontaminated milk.
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