FDA believes intentional contamination factors into incidence of tainted Heparin worldwide

In attempting to determine the factors leading up to recent heparin woes, US regulators suspect the blood thinner, linked to deaths and allergic reactions, was intentionally contaminated to increase profit, according to an article in Bloomberg News on April 16, 2008.

The article goes on to say that Andrew von Eschenbach, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, made the comment about heparin at a Senate hearing a day earlier.

Some lots of heparin, whose main ingredient was made from pig intestines and imported from China, were contaminated with a cheaper substance derived from animal cartilage, Baxter and the FDA said last month.

Sixty-two people given heparin died since January 2007 after suffering allergic reactions or low blood pressure, the FDA said this month.

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