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Fake diabetes drug peddler arrested
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February 8, 2009, Sunday
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POLICE caught the suspected distributor of a deadly fake diabetes drug, which killed two patients last month, early yesterday morning in Chaoyang City in China's northeast Liaoning Province.
Li Dong, described as the chief suspect by Ministry of Public Security officials in an arrest warrant issued on Thursday, was caught at 4:40am yesterday in a rented house in Chaoyang City, a police spokesman said.
The police had earlier detained another two associates of Li.
Li confessed that he brought the fake diabetes drug from another province, and police have expanded their investigations.
The fake drug linked to two deaths in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was found to have come from Liaoning Province.
The drug, sold under the brand "Tang Zhi Ning Jiao Nang," was found to contain six times the normal dose of glibenclamide, which is used to help lower blood sugar.
Xinjiang authorities said 14,400 bottles of the drug entered the region, of which 10,663 bottles had been recovered, including 3,539 taken from customers.
The drug also showed up in Liaoning and the southwestern Sichuan Province. However, no one outside Xinjiang has been found to have fallen ill after taking the drug.
It is still not clear where the fake drug was produced.
Meanwhile, China's quality watchdog has recalled a human rabies vaccine produced in 2008 by a Liaoning Province company which contained an illegal nucleic acid ingredient.
The ingredient acts as an adjuvant, a substance used to enhance the effectiveness of a drug or a pesticide.
The rabies vaccine, produced by Dalian Gold Hong Kong Company, failed a test launched in January by the National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products.
Yan Jiangying, a spokeswoman for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said on Friday that nucleic acid materials could not be used as an adjuvant for the rabies human vaccine, since "the experiment had not entered human clinical trials yet."
"Although its effect on animals turned out safe, any usage of this ingredient is illegal before we finish trials on humans," Yan said. No adverse reactions have been reported.
Li Dong, described as the chief suspect by Ministry of Public Security officials in an arrest warrant issued on Thursday, was caught at 4:40am yesterday in a rented house in Chaoyang City, a police spokesman said.
The police had earlier detained another two associates of Li.
Li confessed that he brought the fake diabetes drug from another province, and police have expanded their investigations.
The fake drug linked to two deaths in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was found to have come from Liaoning Province.
The drug, sold under the brand "Tang Zhi Ning Jiao Nang," was found to contain six times the normal dose of glibenclamide, which is used to help lower blood sugar.
Xinjiang authorities said 14,400 bottles of the drug entered the region, of which 10,663 bottles had been recovered, including 3,539 taken from customers.
The drug also showed up in Liaoning and the southwestern Sichuan Province. However, no one outside Xinjiang has been found to have fallen ill after taking the drug.
It is still not clear where the fake drug was produced.
Meanwhile, China's quality watchdog has recalled a human rabies vaccine produced in 2008 by a Liaoning Province company which contained an illegal nucleic acid ingredient.
The ingredient acts as an adjuvant, a substance used to enhance the effectiveness of a drug or a pesticide.
The rabies vaccine, produced by Dalian Gold Hong Kong Company, failed a test launched in January by the National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products.
Yan Jiangying, a spokeswoman for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said on Friday that nucleic acid materials could not be used as an adjuvant for the rabies human vaccine, since "the experiment had not entered human clinical trials yet."
"Although its effect on animals turned out safe, any usage of this ingredient is illegal before we finish trials on humans," Yan said. No adverse reactions have been reported.
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