NYT's: "F.D.A. Tracked Tainted Drugs,..

but Trail Went Cold in China."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/health/17poison.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1182089127-9zbWn7a424m0sYw1tTb/JA&pagewanted=print


By WALT BOGDANICH

After a drug ingredient from China killed dozens of Haitian children a decade ago, a senior American health official sent a cable to her investigators: find out who made the poisonous ingredient and why a state-owned company in China exported it as safe, pharmaceutical-grade glycerin.

The Chinese were of little help. Requests to find the manufacturer were ignored. Business records were withheld or destroyed.

The Americans had reason for alarm. “The U.S. imports a lot of Chinese glycerin and it is used in ingested products such as toothpaste,” Mary K. Pendergast, then deputy commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, wrote on Oct. 27, 1997. Learning how diethylene glycol, a syrupy poison used in some antifreeze, ended up in Haitian fever medicine might “prevent this tragedy from happening again,” she wrote.

The F.D.A.’s mission ultimately failed. By the time an F.D.A. agent visited the suspected manufacturer, the plant was shut down and Chinese companies said they bore no responsibility for the mass poisoning.

Ten years later it happened again,...

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How long before forces that be try to kill this story off?

On edit: Link to "page" article as opposed to "print" page


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/health/17poison.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1182089127-9zbWn7a424m0sYw1tTb/JA

The DLC has given us such a precious gift.

He got conned by the Chinese. And we're so fucked.

'nuff said

When de-regulation of many industries went into effect under Reagan, the door was re-opened for companies to abuse the public in a whole bushel full of ways. If this crap wasn't done overseas, it would have happened here. It is the nature of the beast..."Profit Above All".

Regulations were put into place to protect the public, the FDA, EPA, and other entities were put in place to protect us from abuse...with them seriously de-funded and rendered nearly inert, we are open to many forms of abuse.

Every American should avoid buying anything from China wherever possible. I try, and it is difficult, but not impossible.