China Industries International
their new corporate logo...
Posted on 07/08/2007 3:12:22 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China bans sales of leukemia drug in latest medicine scare
BEIJING (AFP) - China's drug regulator has suspended the sales of a leukemia and arthritis drug due to complaints by patients, state press said Sunday, in the latest incident to plague the nation's medicine industry.
The move comes as China's quality-control systems have been called into serious question both domestically and internationally due to incidents ranging from fake drugs to tainted food.
The State Food and Drug Administration on Saturday suspended the sale of methotrexate after children being treated for acute leukemia reported feeling pain and had difficulty walking after being injected with the drug, Xinhua news agency said.
The medicine is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, it said.
The watchdog ordered food and drug administrations in Shanghai and the Guangxi region in the nation's south to re-evaluate the drug, it said.
The latest move comes after China's former head of drug registrations was given a suspended death sentence on Friday last week for taking bribes to approve medications, some of which did not meet standards.
A Beijing court said Cao Wenzhuang was guilty of accepting 2.4 million yuan (315,000 dollars) while heading up the drug registration division of the state food and drug administration.
In China, suspended death sentences are often commuted to life in prison.
Cao's conviction follows a death sentence meted out in May to his boss, Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the agency, in a case that exposed rampant corruption at the country's food-safety watchdog.
In recent months China has faced harsh global criticism, especially from the United States, for a series of toxic exports ranging from foods and medicines, to toothpaste, toys and pet food.
Ping!
Where’s the WTO on matters like this?
Shhh! It's hard enough for them to count all those Yuan and do the conversion into Euros without you asking all those questions.
China Industries InternationalThere was a thread/article last week about bad cough syrup in a South American country, coming from China. Does anyone have the link to that thread? I have tried several searches and I can’t come up with that thread. :(
diethylene glycol, china, toothpaste?
Thanks.
No, i’m pretty sure it was cough syrup. The reason I wanted to relocate it, is that I came across a thread from last October where they had the same problem. I hope they have wisened up to the problem and solved the ‘mystery’.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719492/posts
I would like to know WTO on this China info also.
Just received this in a freepmail:
“Chinese cast iron pots are dangerous - they may have lead in them, as Chinese apparently melts down engine blocks and make cast iron ware... ..
“Recently I bought some very cheap aluminum pans (made in China) for cat dishes, and lo and behold - areas are getting rusty...aluminum?
“Obviously other metals mixed up in there.
“So I would strongly urge everyone to check their cast iron pots/frying pans and get rid of anything not made in the US (if you live in the US) or at least, nothing made in China. Lodge is a good US brand.”
peiping
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