China arrests 15 for making and selling fake drugs
BEIJING – Chinese police have arrested 15 members of a crime ring that made and sold fake medicines, a Chinese newspaper said on Monday amid a domestic and global confidence crisis about the country's food and drug safety.
Police in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang seized more than 30,000 phials of fake vaccination medicine, including rabies vaccines and a plasma-based protein injection, the People's Daily said.
Much of it was made with starch and water.
The 15 are accused of buying the bogus medicines and wrapping them with forged packages of 53 legitimate pharmaceutical companies, the newspaper said.
Reuters
30 July 2007