Government Accountability

Toxic Lead Poisoning in Chinese Kindergarten Exposes Grave Public Safety Failures

By Economics Desk | July 8, 2025

More than 200 young children in a Chinese kindergarten were poisoned after paint containing lead was deliberately added to their food, revealing shocking regulatory failures and systemic negligence.

The recent revelation that over 200 kindergarten students in northwest China's Gansu Province suffered lead poisoning due to paint being intentionally added to their meals is a grave indictment of systemic public safety neglect in authoritarian regimes. The Heshi Peixin Kindergarten's decision to lace food with colored paint, reportedly to attract enrollment and boost revenue, exposes not just callous disregard for children's health but also the failure of government oversight mechanisms.According to state media CCTV's report citing provincial police investigations, this poisonous practice led to 233 out of 251 children showing abnormally high levels of lead in their blood—201 of...

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