China’s Shanghai FDA Bans Five Drugs For Illegal Chemicals

Shanghai's FDA says it has banned five drugs from the local market for containing chemicals already banned. The medicines, made by Hunan Taier Pharmaceutical, Nanchang Chuanqi Health Food, Shaanxi Yangchuntang Biological Medicine and Xiamen Funingchun Health Food, were ordered pulled from store shelves. The firms also are to be fined up to five times the profit they earned from the products, the local FDA said. Four of the medicines were diet treatments, the fifth an immune-system booster. (Click here for more