One of the highest officials to lose his job was Wang Bubu, chief of the law enforcement division of the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine.
But so far investigations have focused mostly on local officials, though the head of the country's product-safety watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine, resigned.
Last September, the chief of the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine and two high ranking officials in the city of Shijiazhuang, where Sanlu was based, were dismissed or stepped down.
The countrys industrial watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, is expected to announce plans this week to set up a database on the inspection and quarantine of imports and exports and has vowed to begin scrutinizing every shipment of goods leaving the country, taking a giant step from the random sampling currently conducted by U.S. Customs.
The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have all vied for monitoring roles.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) did not specify what action it would take beyond demanding that the problem be addressed quickly.
Mr. Debrowski met yesterday at the office of Li Changjiang, the head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, in Beijing.
The General Administration for Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine, the nation's top quality watchdog, did not respond to requests for an interview.
"They can absolutely undergo a major overhaul in a short period of time," Li Changjiang, head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said Wednesday during a news conference carried live on national television.
In a statement released late Saturday, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said that low levels of the chemical had been deemed safe for consumption and that the ingredients list was made available to the F.D.A.
