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I watched these C-SPAN hearings last night- and the investigator for Congress came right out and said this was "economic fraud" and that all evidence points to the deaths being the results of Chinese companies adding contaminants in order to profitteer....He said it is no different than the adding of melamine in pet foods or the ethyl glycol to toothpaste in previous incidents to make a bigger profit.....

And the sad thing is- The Bush FDA has not shut down importing from these companies- nor have they done anything to prevent another Chinese company from doing the same thing with another additive at any time- in their backing of globalist trading over consumer safety or US domestic industry.... :( :mad:

As was brought up by Congressman Dingel- if this had been done by Al Quaeda, GW and the neocons would be screaming bloody murder- and attacking some country....But since it was done by a corporate interest (even tho a foreign Communist government owned one) its being swept under the table....
But--After watching both the Dems and Repubs on the committee tear the FDA Director a new rear end- I don't think that will happen.....


Heparin Contamination May Have Been Deliberate, F.D.A. Says


By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: April 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators believe that a contaminant detected in a crucial blood thinner that has caused 81 deaths was added deliberately, something the Food and Drug Administration has only hinted at previously.


“F.D.A.’s working hypothesis is that this was intentional contamination, but this is not yet proven,” Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in written testimony given Tuesday.

A third of the material in some batches of the thinner heparin were contaminants, “and it does strain one’s credulity to suggest that might have been done accidentally,” Dr. Woodcock said.

Two weeks ago, Food and Drug Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach told a Senate subcommittee that the contamination was done “by virtue of economic fraud,” but he quickly withdrew the remark, saying he had “probably gone too far.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/health/policy/30heparin.html?em&ex=1209700800&en=2c7f1b380ee3057e&ei=5087%0A
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