FDA Withholds List of Chinese Producers of Heparin from Congress

FDA Withholds List of Chinese Producers of Heparin from Congress

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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is withholding a list of Chinese heparin suppliers requested by congressional investigators looking into problems with tainted supplies of the blood thinner, saying confidentiality agreements prevent release of the companies' names.

Members of Congress also are concerned that Chinese heparin manufacturers and their raw-material suppliers didn't fully cooperate with an FDA inspection team in February, after the heparin crisis erupted internationally, and barred the FDA from complete access to some workshops, records and workers.

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[edit on 10-5-2008 by grover]

This is a total outrage... the FDA is protecting Chinese companies that have supplied tainted and defective supplies over the American people.



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So now the FDA supersedes Congress

I can't believe that this thread has been ignored... the whole thing is an outrage.

Pfft they are Congress, they could do something if they wanted to.

Maybe someone should check to see how much money Congressional People make off such imported things.

we already know they rake in the millions on war.