Among the list of tainted goods were toothpaste, pet food, fish, toys, milk powder, blood thinners, cooking oil, pork and, most recently, vaccines, where the authorities used to downplay scandals and sweep them under the rug.

This'll vaccine scare shows just how much things have changed and the reason why the Chinese have turned to social media and the government is responding.

Parents were expressing their anger on social media after drug regulators found a health care company produced 250,000 low quality vaccines for infants.

Shots, which are compulsory in China, were supposed to protect their kids from potentially deadly diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.

It's fair to say that producing low quality products happens in many other countries to the differences in China.

Due to the large population, every problem gets amplified.

Data for Rabies vaccines were also found to have been fabricated.

Some parents even picketed government offices, and many flew to Hong Kong for foreign made shots.

Three government had no choice but to address the public outcry.

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I think we're seeing a tipping point now where social media is becoming more in France show than traditional news outlets.

The government can't control social media like they could with traditional media's.

So they're having Thio address the issues like never before.

In a rare reaction, public outcry person and she Jinping personally called the vaccine scandal shocking.

And vaccine maker executives were detained within 48 hours of the initial clamor on social media due to rapid growth of users on social media such as V chat, an increasing number of bloggers, news and views can strap more quickly.

The government's response recently was more timely than ever.

An investigation in punishment was more effective.

Critics say that health crises have stemmed from lax regulations and light punishments in a current vaccine prices.

For example, for the 250,000 infected vixens, they only got a fine of about three million gun or 440,000 U.

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Dollars, which is really low.

So if the country lax regulation and the punishment for violation of the rules is low, it's a really big temptation for local makers to use low cost materials, even back quality products, to sell and make a huge profit.

The inadequacy of regulations stems from government efforts to coddle domestic companies in an effort to help them grow.

On top of that, imported medicines and vaccines commonplace around the world have long been unavailable because of arduous drug approval system.

Chinese companies had to repeat all drug trials for imported medicines to get them signed off.

On in China is protected local drug makers.

But in October 2017 the country's regulator abolished this room by introducing competitors into a market that will raise the bar in terms of quality and social media will continue to act as regulators.