Researchers have identified the chemical in the contaminated blood thinner Heparin that killed 81 people in the U.S. and made patients here and in Europe sick:The researchers freeze-dried the heparin and used a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and liquid chromatography-mass…
Recalled Heparin Contaminant Confirmed, And Congress Grills FDA On Inspections
By April 24, 2008
Tainted Heparin May Have Been The Work Of Counterfeiters
By March 5, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today drug counterfeiters may have added a foreign ingredient into Chinese shipments of Baxter’s blood-thinner heparin which has been linked to 19 deaths and 800 illnesses.
