{"id":39486,"date":"2009-05-25T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=39486"},"modified":"2009-05-25T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T06:22:20","slug":"china-says-being-demonised-over-fake-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/china-says-being-demonised-over-fake-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"China Says Being Demonised Over Fake Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With China&#8217;s sensitivity to foreign opinion, China is countering the\u00a0claim that it is producing fake drugs, especially\u00a0with last\u00a0year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/milk-contamination\/\" target=\"_blank\">milk contaminations<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSPEK211373\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior Chinese health official complained on Tuesday that his country was being unfairly demonised as a centre of fake drug production and defended the government&#8217;s regulatory steps as sufficiently strong. China has been battling a string of tainted and counterfeit food and pharmaceutical cases over recent years and has vowed to get tough.<\/p>\n<p>But Bian Zhenjia, deputy head of the State Food and Drug Administration, said China was being unfairly blamed for the problem, especially by foreign media which claim the country is a major exporter of fake drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not agree with what the foreign media say. The Chinese government has always paid a lot of attention to cracking down on fake drugs,&#8221; Bian told a news conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With China&#8217;s sensitivity to foreign opinion, China is countering the\u00a0claim that it is producing fake drugs, especially\u00a0with last\u00a0year&#8217;s milk contaminations. From Reuters: A senior Chinese health official complained on Tuesday that his country was being unfairly demonised as a centre of fake drug production and defended the government&#8217;s regulatory steps as sufficiently strong. 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