A Rancid Treatment

As Mid-Autumn Festival approached, Xu Kunlun and his wife, a Beijing couple, could only think of the child they buried just four months before. Their 18-month-old daughter Xu Yiming died of food poisoning after eating fried chicken at a farmers market.

During a holiday often spent with families, the absence their child was not eased by the news that the Beijing municipal government announced a set of regulations almost identical to rules issued years before to address the use of chemical additives in food.