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SHANGHAI, Dec. 21 -- A Chinese express delivery company apologized on Saturday afterparcels tainted by toxic chemicals killed one recipient and sickened seven others.
In a case that exposed flawed management inside one of China's fastest-growing industries,a man in east China's Shandong Province died of methyl fluoroacetate poisoning after heaccepted shoes delivered by the Shanghai YTO Express in late November, according to theShandong post bureau.
The bureau said four parcels delivered by the Shanghai-based company were found to becontaminated, and five delivery workers and two recipients were also sickened.
A YTO spokesman said the contamination happened after a package containing thechemical leaked during transport. The package was sent by a chemical plant in centralChina's Hubei Province, who claimed it was "innoxious."
The spokesman said that before accepting the package, the company staff had performedroutine checks "according to company rules."
In a statement issued to media, the company said it would not shun its responsibilities andwas cooperating with police in the investigation.
Police are still probing the case.
China's express industry witnessed exponential growth in recent years thanks to surgingpopularity of e-commerce, but experts said the booming business belied problems like poorservice and lax supervision.
（Editor：WangXin、Yao Chun）
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