FDA: Deadly blood-thinning drug produced in China may contain bogus ingredient

FDA: Deadly blood-thinning drug produced in China may contain bogus ingredient

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A blood thinner tied to the deaths of at least 19 people in the U.S. has a "possibly counterfeit ingredient," a federal agency revealed.

Raw components of the drug, heparin, are produced in China, reports The New York Times in a story set to appear on their Thursday front page.

"Routine tests failed to distinguish the contaminant from [heparin]," write Gardiner Harris and Walt Bogdanich for the Times. "Only sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging tests uncovered that as much as 20 percent of the product's active ingredient was a heparin mimic blended in with the real thing."

Officials with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) say they have not yet identified the contaminant and, according to the Times, do not know whether the presence of the contaminant "was accidental or ... deliberate."

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Were not allowed to buy medication from Canada. So our government can get it for cheap from China. Even though they keep poisioning the toys, the medicine, even the pet food they send here.

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