China Confirms It’s the Source of Heparin Contaminant


	China Confirms It’s the Source of Heparin Contaminant

BobbyDelray

3-20-2008 12:59 PM

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china, heparin, baxter, chondroitin

BobbyDelray says:

We really need to address this issues with China. Is profit worth what we are doing to our children and now adult population?

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Scientific Protein Laboratories said the modified chondroitin was in the raw heparin they bought in China, then processed into the active pharmaceutical ingredient to sell to Baxter. The chondroitin probably didn’t come from pigs, and may have been used to meet production targets when more than 250,000 Chinese pigs were hit by a runaway infection, <A target="blank" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-thu_baxter-heparinmar20,0,5868708.story">the Chicago Tribune reports</A>. 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