Comments on: first pet food, then trader joe’s, now heparin… http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/02/14/first-its-pet-food-now-its-heparin/ A China law blog covering issues in Chinese law, business, and society Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:06:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: T Chow http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/02/14/first-its-pet-food-now-its-heparin/#comment-10 T Chow Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:16:15 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/02/14/first-its-pet-food-now-its-heparin/#comment-10 IP Dragon: Thanks for the compliment. As for your article, I do agree that science has really developed in this area. (I also think of the pet food scandal as well as the spinach e-coli poisoning in California that happened a little while back, how particular factories can be ID'ed) The tough part is this: even if its the Chinese factory, the FDA never got around to an inspection. If it did, then this factory would arguably never have touched heparin, so its hard to pin blame. (unless the Chinese factory is not to blame and the FDA and/or Baxter didn't adequately test the drug, then its clearly on the FDA) Tom IP Dragon:

Thanks for the compliment.

As for your article, I do agree that science has really developed in this area. (I also think of the pet food scandal as well as the spinach e-coli poisoning in California that happened a little while back, how particular factories can be ID’ed)

The tough part is this: even if its the Chinese factory, the FDA never got around to an inspection. If it did, then this factory would arguably never have touched heparin, so its hard to pin blame. (unless the Chinese factory is not to blame and the FDA and/or Baxter didn’t adequately test the drug, then its clearly on the FDA)

Tom

]]> By: IP Dragon http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/02/14/first-its-pet-food-now-its-heparin/#comment-9 IP Dragon Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:09:24 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2008/02/14/first-its-pet-food-now-its-heparin/#comment-9 Hi Tom, On an optimistic note: modern science seems to have ways to track down the culprits. See here: http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2008/02/origin-fake-malaria-medicine-traced-by.html. Congratulations with your new blog. I will follow it. Cheers, IP Dragon Hi Tom,

On an optimistic note: modern science seems to have ways to track down the culprits. See here: http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2008/02/origin-fake-malaria-medicine-traced-by.html.

Congratulations with your new blog. I will follow it.

Cheers,

IP Dragon

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