More info on supplements coming from China

[leftyladyfrommo]

I posted a new title on this - hope that's all right. But people who take supplements should be aware of this:

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/06/2401823/drugs-supplements-come-to-us-from.html

[Vincardog]

1. “It’s a nascent public health crisis and we shouldn’t wait until we have bodies in the street,” said

“It’s a nascent public health crisis and we shouldn’t wait until we have bodies in the street,” said Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a New York nonprofit group that promotes drug and food safety.

Besides the counterfeiting, there have been cases of drug contamination. In 2008, a contaminated ingredient from China showed up in heparin, a blood-thinning medicine that was linked to 149 deaths.

In a product quality case in another industry, China was not cooperating with U.S. officials who were in the country investigating tainted drywall believed to have contaminated thousands of U.S. homes, the nonprofit news organization ProPublica reported last month. At one point, a Chinese official tried to pry a piece of drywall from the hands of a U.S. investigator.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/06/2401823/drugs-supplements-come-to-us-from.html#ixzz14hrAoM7G

[BuddhaGirl]

2. not just supplements, but drugs and OTC stuff too

drugs like Heparin which were linked to patient deaths.

[snagglepuss]

3. K and R. Thanks for posting.

[PearliePoo2]

4. we need to know country of origin.

Who do I contact to urge this? My senator..House Rep?

[thecrow]

5. Both..........

and anyone else you can get to listen!

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. There was another article on just that subject

They are trying to get the industry to put the country of origin on the bottles or at least mark them to say that they are made in the US. For some reason they are reluctant to do that.

I'll try to find that article, too.

Here it is:

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/06/2401824/industry-groups-consider-pushing.html