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Article: Heparin scare raises perils of outsourcing
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- April 13, 2008
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Pigs are bred at a pig farm in Changzhou, China. A factory processing chemicals from pig guts into heparin -- a blood thinner -- has been linked to 19 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions.(PHOTO - Color)
On a dusty lane in east China, a factory sitting amid fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked to 62 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions in the United States and Germany.
The problems with heparin from the factory and others like it -- China's deadliest product quality scandal since Chinese cough syrup killed 93 people in Central America a year ago -- dramatically ...