Be aware of products imported from China..we all heard about the toothpaste recently that was deemed unsafe and further stories indicate the counterfeit or fake "knock offs" are finding their way into health and medical products in other areas as well as potential toxins in some products. BD
BEIJING — Eighteen big hospitals in northeastern China have been using fake human albumin, or plasma protein, to treat patients, state television reported in the latest food and medicine scandal to hit the country.
In the most recent scandal, U.S. consumers were alarmed by a spate of pet deaths blamed on tainted wheat gluten and rice protein exported from China, as well as reports of toxins and disease in other Chinese exports.
In regular checks made by the food and drug administration in Jilin province, seven of 36 batches of the albumin, fed into the bloodstream by drip, contained zero protein.
"There was no protein component," Xu Fei, deputy chief of Jilin food and drug inspection department, told China Central Television. "It will not have the benefit it should have. We can say it is an out-and-out fake product." Experts said that use of the fake drip could put lives at risk for those already seriously ill.
Eighteen hospitals and 39 drug trading companies were found to be using the fake human albumin, which led to huge profits because of its low production cost.
Source: globeandmail.com: Chinese hospitals used ‘fake plasma' on patients
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