Were batches of Heparin deliberately contaminated? Federal regulators believe this may be so.
The Food and Drug Administration believes that the dangerous substance in the contaminated blood-thinner drug Heparin may have been added deliberately, said the New York Times on April 30, 2008.
The Agency has linked Heparin to 81 deaths and hundreds of severe allergic reactions.
The Times article said a third of the material in some batches of Heparin were contaminants. To that fact, Dr. Janet Woodcock of the FDA was quoted as saying, "it does strain one's credulity to suggest that might have been done accidentally."
The FDA has identified Changzhou SPL, a Chinese subsidiary of Scientific Protein Laboratories, as the source of the contaminated Heparin.
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