Personal Injury Law

Contaminated Heparin Linked to Sickness and Deaths

By Beth Janicek

The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, is facing another crisis. Heparin, a blood thinner that is manufactured in China, was contaminated. The contaminated Heparin has been linked to 19 deaths and made hundreds of people sick.

The last big drug crisis from China was in 1999. Since then, we have increased the drugs coming for China. The FDA only inspected 13 or the 566 plants in China last year.

The Institute of Medicine, the Government Accountability Office and the F.D.A.'s own Science Board have all issued reports saying poor management and scientific inadequacies make the agency incapable of protecting the country against unsafe drugs, medical devices and food.

Full post as published by San Antonio Personal Injury Lawyer on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).