China says being demonised over fake drugs

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) - A senior Chinese health official complained on Tuesday that his country was being unfairly demonised as a centre of fake drug production and defended the government's regulatory steps as sufficiently strong. China has been battling a string of tainted and counterfeit food and pharmaceutical cases over recent years and has vowed to get tough.

While many of these scandals have only had a domestic impact, others have affected consumers abroad. At least 100 people in Panama are thought to have died in 2006 after consuming toxic, mislabelled drugs in cough syrup from China.

But Bian Zhenjia, deputy head of the State Food and Drug Administration, said China was being unfairly blamed for the problem, especially by foreign media which claim the country is a major exporter of fake drugs.

"I do not agree with what the foreign media say. The Chinese government has always paid a lot of attention to cracking down on fake drugs," Bian told a news conference.


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[MADem]

1. Naaah, they're being CALLED on their fake drugs, their melamine in food products, their

Killer Dog Food, their unsafe and lead-infused plastic toys, their crappy manufacturing processes, their use of prison labor to keep costs down....the hits just keep on coming!!!

When yellow highway paint is found in pills from China, there are problems happening there.

[Dappleganger]

2. Well they have a quite a reputation for telling the truth...

:sarcasm:

[AnneD]

3. Drugs from China...

were linked to a heprin scandle here I seem to recall.

[liberal N proud]

4. Demonized? Not nearly enough

Some are just calling them like they see them.

With all the tainted products coming form China, I don't think demonized is sufficient to cover this.

They need to be chastised and isolated for the things they have done to their own people and the world.

[aquart]

5. Fake drugs? Not poisonous pet food or wall board?

Demonization seems limited in scope.

[glinda]

6. Agreed! As I sit with my dying cat who ate poisoned pet food and now has kidney failure.

[aquart]

9. Oh no. I am so sorry.

Over four years, I lost three cats to kidney failure, never realized it could be the food, the last one months before the recall.

[glinda]

10. Yes. The effects can come on years later after the poisoning. I am so very very sorry

that you lost four. I have two now with kidney issues and another with the beginning of it and another that is now allergic to most foods as a result of it. I am sick to my stomach about it. Thank you for your kind words.

[KittyWampus]

7. Honestly? I think the US mediawhores and pols UNDERPLAY the problem with China

for fear of China yanking hard on the financial chain they've got around our necks.

[ohio2007]

8. don't be fooled by cheap imitation knock offs. Demand to see the lead content

an informed customer is a happy customer