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Chinese facility suspected of contamination

When news of an FDA-approved pharmaceutical medicine designed to save patients’ lives actually fails and ends up causing patient deaths (or severe allergic reactions for those it was intended to help), the government will intercede and a nationwide recall is initiated.

This is the current case with a popular blood thinner known as “Heparin” (HEP-a-rin), which is normally useful in preventing blood clots from dangerously traveling through the blood stream to clog other vessels. It is commonly used among elderly patients, according to a personal injury attorney.

But another group of patients are becoming very concerned – young mothers. That’s because Heparin is sometimes employed in combination with aspirin to prevent pregnancy loss and other problems in pregnant women who have certain medical conditions.

The drug’s manufacturer, Deerfield, Illinois-based Baxter International, Inc., this month recalled thousands of vials of the anticoagulant after some of the supply was connected to four deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions.

The Heparin vials reportedly contain the bacterium “Serratia marcescens,” more commonly found in contaminated water and soil, and linked to pneumonia, blood infections, and urinary tract and wound infections.

As news spread that federal regulators failed to inspect a Chinese factory suspected of contaminating supplies with a life-threatening bacterium, Congressional Democrats swarmed the FDA and threatened to enact new laws to protect the public.

Under FDA guidelines, federal officials should have inspected the plant before any shipments entered the United States. At press time the FDA admitted it had never inspected the Chinese plant, attributing the procedural lapse to confusion with a different company with a similar name.

Baxter spokeswoman Erin Gardiner is on record as saying that the company followed all regulatory requirements and that Baxter officials inspected the facility in China as recently as last year.

If you were administered Heparin and harmed, you may be eligible to receive monetary compensation for your injury. Please complete the form below and a representative from Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., the largest personal injury law firm in New York, will answer your questions and review the viability of your case as soon as possible.

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