Report: China drug ingredients unregulated
At least 82 Chinese companies at the world's largest pharmaceutical ingredient trade show in Italy are not government-certified, The New York Times reports.
The companies included Honor International Pharmtech, which allegedly sent counterfeit drugs to the United States, and Orient Pacific International, whose owner has been charged with selling counterfeit drugs for serious diseases like prostate cancer and schizophrenia. Two government-owned export companies at the fair were responsible for 200 deaths in Panama and Haiti from bad drug ingredients, the Times said.
31 October 2007