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Heparin Made in China Might Be Tied to More Deaths

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posted on Feb, 29 2008 @ 08:58 AM
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Heparin Made in China Might Be Tied to More Deaths


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Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug regulators said Thursday that they had found “potential deficiencies” at a Chinese plant that supplied much of the active ingredient for the drug.

Baxter International, which makes the brand of heparin associated with the problems, and buys supplies from the Chinese plant, announced that it was expanding a recall to include virtually all its heparin products.

The Food and Drug Administration said the number of deaths possibly associated with the drug, made from pig intestines, had risen to 21 from 4.
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posted on Feb, 29 2008 @ 08:58 AM
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This drug is an anticoagulant derived from mucosal tissues and intestines of pigs. The problem in China seems to have been short supplies from the usual industrial scale manufactors. Thus supplies have been sought from home-scale vendors, who often not are inspected by government and have routines that doesn't meet hyginic standards.


The Chinese heparin market has been in turmoil over the last year, as pig disease has swept through the country, depleting stocks, leading some farmers to sell sick pigs into the market and forcing heparin producers to scramble for new sources of raw material.


Before we start blaming the Chinese for another tainted product, it is worth to pay noticeto the information in this snippet.


Scientific Protein Laboratories, a Wisconsin company that is the majority owner of the Chinese plant, issued a statement Thursday saying the F.D.A.’s finding did not represent its final determination as to whether the plant complied with federal regulatory rules. S.P.L., the statement said, is committed to finding the root cause of the adverse reactions.


It's always a tragedy when stuff that can find its way to the inside of our body is tainted, but it spells disasters when it is food or medicine, but it is worth mentioning that often the culprit is not a name or nation, but a phenomonon around which money churns: globalization.


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posted on Feb, 29 2008 @ 10:42 AM
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Come to think about a similar story with tainted medicin from China, about a cough mixture used in Panama that caused the death of scores of children.

Here it is:
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine

This case is clearly where greed and greed only is to blame. In the present case of heparin you can blame the mechanisms of the market and poor governmental overseeing.

Still it is no excuse for hitting market.



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