Chinese Counterfeiting Heparin

[Iris]

Why is it that the government feels that it is unsafe for us to purchase Canadian drugs, but they continue to allow China to poison us (repeatedly)? :mad: Does anyone know how we, as consumers, can determine where our medications originate?


Heparin Find May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting

By WALT BOGDANICH
Published: March 20, 2008

Federal drug regulators, in announcing Wednesday that the mystery contaminant in heparin was an inexpensive, unapproved ingredient altered to mimic the real thing, moved closer to concluding that Americans might be the latest victims of lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting.

See link below for entire New York Times Article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/health/20heparin.html?ref=world

[only1alphafemale]

Our FDA is the one I believe who is in charge of this ~

Everything that we are coming into contact with recently, seems to be poisonous or ??? harmful to us in one way or another, ( found in the news media's)

Fake medications ~ city drinking water ?? :eek: and the lead found in our childrens toys.... No end to it it seems~

Food for thought, ( and call me paranoid if you like) , however is all of this another form of "warfare" against us? our nation? One thats not as obvious as holding rilfes and machine guns or bombings and mental warfare ???? :no:

[Iris]

Although this article from the International Tribune is two years old, it illustrates why this tragic condition is allowed to continue. Sadly, as with many other issues, it all boils down to $$$$$$.


The Chinese debt
Published: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006

The Chinese sell a lot of merchandise in the United States and, in the process, accumulate a lot of dollars. They then loan many of those dollars back to the United States in exchange for all manner of American i.o.u.'s, including Treasury bonds, federal agency bonds, and private-sector debt.

America's indebtedness to China, as a result, is staggeringly high, although the Bush administration - which needs foreign loans to help finance the budget deficit - seems unfazed. But there is reason for pause. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that China's holdings of foreign currency and securities would soon top $1 trillion, a fivefold increase since 2000. Roughly 70 percent of that is believed to be in dollars or dollar-based assets.

Of course, $1 trillion does not confer significantly more clout than, say, $990 billion. But the size and growth of China's holdings mean increasing vulnerability for the United States.

For several years, China's loans have helped to keep prices and interest rates low in the United States, and to finance big tax cuts. If the lending began to dry up - because Chinese officials decided to diversify into other currencies or to spend more at home - prices, interest rates and taxes in the United States would very likely rise.

If the loans dried up quickly - a worst-case scenario - the result could be a sharp financial crisis. A gradual shift could mean a long downward trend in American living standards as a higher cost of living took its toll.

But the fact that it could already makes the global financial system more volatile. Investors and traders are hypersensitive to any hint that Beijing may switch allocations.

The Journal also reported that administration officials are concerned that developing nations, unhappy with conditions on loans from the International Monetary Fund, may decide to borrow directly from China. That would give Beijing more influence over emerging markets and their governments.

To its credit, the Bush administration has repeatedly stressed that the rise of China is not to be feared or begrudged. But excessive borrowing under Bush has made the United States unnecessarily vulnerable.