FDA Looks at Wrong Plant in China

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News/AP

U.S. health officials evaluated the wrong factory when assessing the safety of a Chinese-made drug ingredient that may be a source of problems with a blood thinner, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.

Baxter International's heparin has been linked to four deaths and hundreds of reports of allergic reactions. An investigation will take FDA inspectors to China this week.

The Chinese manufacturer was not inspected because it was confused with another company in the agency's database with a similar name, said Joseph Famulare, deputy director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's compliance department. The FDA evaluated that firm, which had a history of positive inspections and was not re-inspected.

The agency discovered within the past month that the wrong factory was evaluated, Famulare said, adding that as far as the FDA knows, it is an isolated incident.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=4307873

[kurth]

1. Well, at least they didn't go to the shoe factory!

Incompetent idiots.

[Vanje]

2. Heck of a job, Brownie!

[truthisfreedom]

3. It's only human lives on the line. Everything bushco touches...

Turns to crap.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. I need an aspirin.

NO!!! WAIT!!!

[KatyaR]

5. Would this qualify for a Darwin Award nomination?

It sure seems like it.

What a country!

[ladywnch]

11. this whole administration needs to be nominated for the Darwin awards!

they are the living embodiment of them!

[Eugene]

14. Sadly, no

since other people are paying the price for BushCo stupidity.

They do however deserve a dishonorable mention for jaw-dropping incompetence.
They outdid themselves this time.

[PA Democrat]

6. Remember the big lie that the reason we couldn't buy drugs from Canada was over SAFETY concerns?

Yeah, right.

[halobeam]

7. My first thought exactly!

Everytime I turn on my computer it's something else HORRIBLE. What the hell!

[thunder rising]

8. The model lab in China, with flip-face sign. Who you looking for (flip flip flip) yes that's us .

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. but we CANNOT re-import US made drugs! this is worse than crazy.

they can import killer drugs and components, precursors and reactive agents from China, with no quality control. But drugs made here, exported cheaply to Canada ARE ILLEGAL here.


just think about that. Our FDA sanctions our injury and death.

[Critters2]

10. If it weren't frightening and sad, it would be REALLY funny.

The Keystone Cops doing drug factory inspections.

[MadMaddie]

12. It leaves you speechless doesn't it? The Incompetence is

beyond the pale.

[catgirl]

13. They need to start all over with the FDA

Hire some people who actually care (and have brains)!

[nebula]

15. This sounds fishy as hell

if this is real, the government would have used it in their case against Oswald because it would have been pretty damning evidence against him. Why didn't they?? I call BS.

[yardwork]

18. I agree. I think that this is a cover story - they didn't bother to inspect.

I believe that tons of products are being imported from China and other countries that the Bush administration knows haven't been inspected. They turn a blind eye in the name of profit.

It's essentially organized crime on a global scale. What are a few dead people to these criminals?

[hootinholler]

19. Oswald was in China???

Sure ya got the right thread?

:shrug:

-Hoot

[tanyev]

16. Well, you know all those Chinese manufacturing plants look alike.

[mattfromnossa]

17. well it sure isn't

the first time the FDA has made a mistake.