What Are The Odds?
Feb 14th, 2008 at 7:41 am by Susie
Anyone care to take a bet?
Geeze, we’re allowed to buy drugs with tainted ingredients from China (who basically owns us), but we’re not allowed to buy perfectly legitimate drugs from Canada. Isn’t this free trade thing great?
WASHINGTON — A Chinese factory that has not been inspected by the Food and Drug Administration is the source for the active ingredient of a critical blood-thinning drug whose production was suspended this week after 350 patients reported ill effects from it.
At least four people died after being given the drug, heparin.
An F.D.A. spokeswoman, Heidi Robello, said Wednesday that the agency was making plans to inspect the Chinese factory as well as a finishing plant in New Jersey “as soon as possible.”
She said that “it was yet to be determined” if the Chinese plant was the source of the problem that led to the spike in reports of problems with the drug’s use.
