FDA: Deadly blood-thinning drug produced in China may contain bogus ingredient
Filed by Mike Sheehan
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.”
For the entire article go to rawstory.com
Every time Corra reads one of these type stores we wonder why not use American workers in American plants? Why are we outsourcing our drug supply overseas to begin with?
For those who might not know what drug this article is referring to, this is the same drug that was mistakenly given to Dennis Quaid’s two twin babies, recently. Now we find that not only was it the wrong drug to administer but twenty percent of its main ingredient may be a dangerous substitute.
Corra can see the wisdom of outsourcing. Sometimes. Otherwise, hire American workers in American companies that actually produce their goods and services right here. Americans can use the money. And American workers are some of the hardest workers.
Okay, so much for patriotic ramblings. But you get the point. And when you do hire American workers, be sure to conduct background checks. Having a preemployment screening program place is always a wise idea. American workers or not, job candidates can be full of unpleasant surprises.
Check them out before you hire.
