Oh, wonderful. Now it’s not enough to import poisons from China to mix into our supplements and pharmaceuticals; we need to have them poisoned over there.
Quality control for your drugs, anyone?
This is putting a lot of American chemists out of work. (Read “Chemical and Engineering News” to learn about the problem.) Of course the morons in Washington want to increase the number of visas that are available for foreign scientists to be brought into this country to replace American chemists in the few jobs that are left for them as companies move their operations overseas.
Zheng Xiaoyu, head of the State Food and Drug Administration from 1998 until his sacking in 2005, was convicted yesterday in a Beijing court of taking 6.49 million yuan ($1.04 million) in bribes and for dereliction of duty.
Zheng, 62, was arrested last year for accepting kickbacks to fast-track drug approvals. In one case under Zheng's watch, a tainted antibiotic approved by his agency killed at least 10 patients last year.
Read more at
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/death-sentence-for-corrupt-food-and-drug-boss/2007/05/29/1180205251341.html
Gives you real confidence huh?
Imagine being able to jump right to phase iii clinical trials on prisoners without having to bother with those pesky monkeys and years of analysis.
Like the drug companies don’t make enough money now.