Vitaliy wrote: >> The Chinese government takes such things quite seriously as long as >> the company is not owned as part of a conglomerate by the >> government and/or military. As happens (Ask me how I know :-( ). > > How do you know this? If I remember right, few years back as a result of the tainted dog food scandal (or was that the tainted Heparin scandal, or one of the various others), they picked a scapegoat or two and made a public show of executing them. Brutal, but I think it made the point rather well. Kindof like Hitler solved the nighttime buglary problem in Berlin. Now if they would only do that once in a while for fraudulent battery manufacturers... ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .