Chinese Heparin Subject Of U.S. Congress Hearing
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
The CEO of Baxter International is set to testify before a congressional hearing April 29 on the firm's contaminated heparin from China. Baxter's version of the blood thinner was linked to at least 81 deaths, the problem traced to a single source in China and said to have been deliberate. The title of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing is, "The Heparin Disaster: Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures." Baxter CEO Robert Parkinson and the CEO of the Chinese supplier, Scientific Protein Labs, were on the witness list. (Click here for more