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Article: China's drug safety agency accuses US of shoddy investigation into tainted heparin
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- May 6, 2008
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China's drug safety agency accused the United States on Tuesday of stonewalling Beijing's investigation into a blood thinner linked to 81 deaths by refusing to provide details on victims and specifics about the later stages of drug production.
Two Chinese experts who attended a conference on the drug, heparin, in suburban Washington, D.C., last month said the U.S. determined a contaminant was likely to blame without considering other possible factors.
"We need to find the real reason," said Jin Shaohong, a member of the drug evaluation committee of China's Food and Drug Administration. "We need to resolve this in a scientific matter, not just by blaming a ...