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The New York Times reports that the FDA is now working under the assumption that the
deadly contamination of
heparin was intentional. In her prepared testimony before a congressional subcommittee, Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation said,
FDA's working hypothesis is that this was intentional contamination, but this has not been proven.
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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 spectrometry to analyze its structure. In addition to a known impurity of heparin called dermatan sulfate, they found that contaminated lots contain a molecule that looks similar to heparin and showed it was almost certainly oversulfated chondroitin sulfate.
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The
Chicago Tribune is reporting that tainted heparin that killed 19 people may have been the work of counterfeiters:
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