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EVERY day the filthy, fetus-soup eating, commie Chinese f**ks give us a new reason to hate and abhor them!
"Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures," the title of a congressional hearing on April 29, laid bare a shocking problem: A counterfeit ingredient in a blood-thinner widely used in surgery, combined with the Food and Drug Administration's failure to inspect Chinese imports, appears to be responsible for at least 81 deaths in the United States.
The blood-thinner, heparin, which is made from pig intestines, had been safely used for about 70 years. What's different today is that most heparin is imported from China, a country that has no compunction about putting poisons in its products to make them cheaper for the world market.
The CEO of Baxter International, which supplies half the heparin used in the U.S., accused the Chinese of having engaged in a "deliberate scheme to adulterate" the medication by using a poisonous product (an altered form of chondroitin sulfate) that mimics the effects of heparin. U.S. patients suffered severe side effects such as abdominal pain, decreased blood pressure, burning sensations, chest pain, diarrhea, dizziness, loss of consciousness, vomiting and death.
http://www.townhall.com/news/health/2008/06/02/6_die_after_human_antibody_injections_in_china
Six people died after being injected with a human antibody in eastern China, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday, the latest case of deaths caused by suspect medicine.
The six died after being injected with immune globulin, and the company that sold the drugs was ordered to stop selling them, said a spokeswoman at the No. 2 Hospital at Nanchang University in Jiangxi province. She would give only her last name Yu, and did not provide any other details.
It was not immediately clear if the drugs in question were also used for treating patients outside of China.
The drugs were produced by Jiangxi Boya Bio-Pharmaceutical Co. A notice on the company's Web site said the cause of the deaths was still under investigation.
The company said it had shipped more than 9,000 doses of the same batch to hospitals around China, of which 3,192 had been used without any problems. The remainder had been recalled.......
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