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2008-03-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Drug Contaminant May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting

Federal drug regulators, in announcing Wednesday that the mystery contaminant in heparin was an inexpensive, unapproved ingredient altered to mimic the real thing, moved closer to concluding that Americans might be the latest victims of lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting.

The contaminant made it difficult for Baxter International, the manufacturer of the heparin associated with the allergic reactions, to detect the impurity {and they do test for impurities}. This compound to our knowledge is not naturally occurring, Dr. Woodcock said. It should not be in heparin. And it obviously should not be in the form it is in.

Measures have been taken, although the FDA has not visited the Chinese workshops in question. We feel doctors and patients can be confident that the product on the market for the large volume uses of heparin, for dialysis and so forth, has been tested and is safe, Dr. Woodcock said.
Safe until the next cheap contaminant is dreamed up to add to products shipped to the West.

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#1 Johnson! Stop the presses!!

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