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Posted on: Wed, Apr 30 2008 7:51 PM
Posted by: mitskev Posts: 63
Hey Didn't China just recently make the news about bad Heparin - a blood thinning agent. I do believe I got Heparin while in my hospital stay for stroke. I don't have a thing against China - but their reputation for bad production values precede them and I rest my case. Think Ethalyn glycol, lead paint, etc. - I think it has to do with lax product safeguards and apparently total lack of them. It's almost as bad as our meat industry but I digress ...
Does the website get updated daily, weekly, monthly or at all ? If you respond - do they respond back ? Do they want money ? These are some questions you should ask your self when dealing with the unknown or unscrupulous.
Posted on: Wed, Apr 30 2008 11:16 PM
Posted by: Lieslmcq Posts: 2,303
mitskev:Hey Didn't China just recently make the news about bad Heparin - a blood thinning agent. I do believe I got Heparin while in my hospital stay for stroke. I don't have a thing against China - but their reputation for bad production values precede them and I rest my case. Think Ethalyn glycol, lead paint, etc. - I think it has to do with lax product safeguards and apparently total lack of them. It's almost as bad as our meat industry but I digress ...
The thing that scares me about this is the fact that it is almost impossible to find out where the ingredients for our meds come from. How would we ever know? The heparin thing was only one ingredient in it that was tainted. It's scary!
Posted on: Fri, May 2 2008 7:06 PM
I believe the ingredient in the heparin came from a pig - don't know where exactly gland, intestine lining ? Anyway I also think ity was the facility was what tainted the heparin. It was like our slaughterhouse for beef. It was apparently filthy and without the usual and known sanitary precautions used to obtain this ingredient. I think for most American made medicines their still are some precautions used - for lack of a better term. I hope there still are safeguards for the American made ones but who really, really knows. Chemists and Pharmacists - I'm sure but as for the ingredients and combinations - only the drug companies know.
Posted on: Fri, May 2 2008 8:38 PM
mitskev:I believe the ingredient in the heparin came from a pig - don't know where exactly gland, intestine lining ? Anyway I also think ity was the facility was what tainted the heparin. It was like our slaughterhouse for beef. It was apparently filthy and without the usual and known sanitary precautions used to obtain this ingredient. I think for most American made medicines their still are some precautions used - for lack of a better term. I hope there still are safeguards for the American made ones but who really, really knows. Chemists and Pharmacists - I'm sure but as for the ingredients and combinations - only the drug companies know.
I think you're right about the intestinal lining. ick. I had a student whose father was killed by a pharmacist who was watering down chemo IVs for profit. Can you imagine??
Posted on: Fri, May 2 2008 9:00 PM
What a shameful thing to do ? Hope the punishment was harsh and lengthy. Greed is not pretty its disgusting.
Posted on: Fri, May 2 2008 10:03 PM
mitskev:What a shameful thing to do ? Hope the punishment was harsh and lengthy. Greed is not pretty its disgusting.
Oh yeah! he's still in prison.
Posted on: Sun, May 4 2008 7:58 PM
There is justice for the heinous.
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