China-Product Scare Hits Home, Too (China)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Chinese authorities are halting the export of the toothpaste by Tian Qi Company and others making toothpaste tainted with poisonous diethylene glycol. However, China is allowing these companies to sell through its voluminous stock within China. In 2006, five people allegedly died from injections of Chinese-made gall-bladder medicine because it too contained diethylene glycol. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao responded at the time by saying, "The pharmaceutical market is in disorder." Today China's inspection bureaucracy is overwhelmed by the expanding number of pharmaceutical and food companies in China, many of them small businesses. China also maintains much more lax standards within China than for Chinese companies producing for the export market. (Click here for more - May Require Paid Subscription