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Nitrite has been blamed for Fridays food poisoning incident in Guizhou Province that killed a five-year-old girl and sickened 72, local authorities said Tuesday. Shop owners Wang Xianxin and Wang Yan have been arrested after mistakenly selling nitrite thinking it was sugar to a cook in the city of Anshun, the city government said in a statement. The cook used the nitrite to season dishes for a dinner in Wangzhuang Village, Anshun, on Friday, it said. A total of 73 dinner guests were admitted to five hospitals that night after showing symptoms of food poisoning. The girl died after treatment failed. Thirty-one victims are still in hospital. Source: Xinhua Weekly review 第二篇 Chinese police had raided more than 13,000 dens as of Tuesday since the Ministry of Public Security launched a campaign to halt the production and sale of counterfeit goods last November. Officials with the ministry said in a tele-conference Tuesday that police had detained nearly 29,500 suspects and broken up more than 4,900 wholesalers or groups involved in intellectual property rights (IPR) violations. During the period, police solved more than 15,800 IPR violation cases, which involved a total value of 13.11 billion yuan (2.03 billion U.S dollars). In the later half of this year, police will press ahead with a concerted crackdown on fake products in the agricultural sector, counterfeit medicine, adulterated food and copying of famous brands, according to Liu Jinguo, vice minister of public security. Source: Xinhua Weekly review 第三篇 A man was sentenced to death Tuesday in south Chinas Guangdong Province for forging counterfeit yuan notes with a par value of 170 million yuan with 15 other gang members. Xiao Guihong, the ring leader, was given the death penalty in the first-instance trial, according to a verdict released by the Dongguan City Intermediate Peoples Court. The other 15 ring members were given sentences ranging from death with a reprieve t