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Syrupy killer in medicine bottle
Chron.com ^ | May 6, 2007 | WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER

Posted on 05/06/2007 8:43:15 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

“Records show in 3 of last 4 global cases, the poison sold as glycerin was made in China”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze. It also is a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident.

The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.

Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents.

Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine — cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — a result of counterfeiters who profit by substituting the sweet-tasting solvent for a safe, more expensive syrup, usually glycerin, commonly used in drugs, food, toothpaste, and other products.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “One lingering mystery involves the name of the product made by the Taixing Glycerine Factory. The factory had called its syrup “TD” glycerin. The letters TD were in virtually all the shipping documents. What did TD mean?

Spanish medical authorities concluded that it stood for a manufacturing process. Chinese inspectors thought it was the manufacturer’s secret formula.

But Yuan Kailin, a former salesman for the Glycerine Factory, said he knew what the TD meant because a friend and former manager of the factory, Ding Yuming, had once told him. TD stood for the Chinese word “tidai” (tee-die), said Yuan, who left his job in 1998 and still lives about a mile from the factory.

In English, tidai means substitute. A clue that might have revealed that the poison was hiding in plain sight.

It was in the product name.”