China says Baxter obstructing investigations into heparin deaths

" Chinese officials said US drugmaker Baxter International was obstructing an investigation into deaths linked to a Chinese-made blood thinner called heparin, Reuters reported. The State Food and Drug Administration said Baxter was not cooperating with Chinese...

SFDA denies link between US deaths and Chinese-made drug

China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said no direct linkhas been proven between deaths in the US and the blood thinner heparin,APreported. A US congressional subcommittee was told last month thatcontaminated heparin has been linked to 81 deaths and 785...

Accountability in China: ex-food and drug chief executed

In the US this would get you a 'heck of a job'.  In China apparently they kill you for messing up.  "BEIJING - China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country's wide-ranging problems on product...

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