US health secretary: Chinese Heparin shipped to US now safe [View All]

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — A blood thinner manufactured in China and linked to dozens of deaths in the United States is now safe because of tighter testing and controls, a top American health official said Monday, while warning that all U.S. imports would face closer scrutiny in the future.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has linked 81 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions to a contaminant found in China-made shipments of the drug heparin.

"We have put in place processes that we believe can ensure the safety of the heparin supply within the United States," U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt told The Associated Press in an interview in Shanghai.

He said all exporters of food, drugs and other products must prepare to meet more stringent guidelines of quality and safety, following a raft of product safety problems stemming from lax standards among overseas producers, especially in China.



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We can't buy safe drugs from Canada, but China with a bad history of unsafe everything is OK????