Baxter International Inc. and the FDA have accused Chinese suppliers of contaminating shipments of the drug heparin, and now the Chinese investigators claim that the U.S. is not sharing pertinent medical information. From...
Read MoreChina officially investigates on the Heparin case, but it takes a defensive tone by saying the U.S. imported Heparin is from a China-U.S. joint venture company. From The New York Times: China’s top drug safety agency has ordered...
Read MoreThe contaminant in a tainted blood-thinning drug China exported to the U.S. has been identified. The substance, hypersulfated chondroitin sulfate, mimics the blood thinner in standard safety tests and may have been deliberately...
Read MoreNot only USA but also Germany has checked the Heparin imported from China, from The New York Times: The German authorities said Friday that they had asked all German producers of the blood thinner heparin to check whether their...
Read MoreEarlier this month, $180 million worth of counterfeit pharmaceuticals were seized and nearly 2,000 people were arrested by Chinese authorities, part of an ongoing government pledge to enhance drug safety and crackdown on...
Read MoreA repeat of last year’s attempt at an IPO by bear bile farmers Guizhentang has once again sparked uproar, fuelled by celebrity involvement, online video of bile being drained from whimpering animals, and the Chinese...
Read MoreLi Li, the founder and chairman of Hepalink Pharmaceutical, the world’s biggest maker of blood-thinning heparin products, became China’s richest man when his company was listed on the Shenzhen stock market,...
Read MoreGardiner Harris writes in the New York Times Magazine: In China, where thousands of drug manufacturers sell products in the local markets, profit margins are razor thin, and counterfeiting and contamination are common. In 2002,...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese officials have rejected claims by US authorities that Chinese imports are to blame for deaths among users of the blood-thinning drug heparin. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a contaminant...
Read MoreAn update of the China exported Heparin linked to 19 deaths in the US. From the Washington Post: Tests of the active ingredient produced in China to make heparin for Baxter International found a contaminant in 20 of 28 samples,...
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