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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

''China drugs scandal hot on the hoof of meat ban''

From Asia Times

''Medicine by definition is for treatment of diseases or injuries. But drugs contaminated with unwanted poisonous stuff (some poison are necessary to cure certain diseases) will do harm to human health instead. Hence medicine makers must have the social conscience and responsibility to ensure the safety of their products.

It is therefore totally justified for Chinese public to become outraged upon learning that over a dozen commonly-used drugs have been packed into capsules made from industrial gelatin made from waste leather materials. As such the capsules contain excessive amounts of chromium, which is hazardous to human health. Amid suspicion that a lot more drugs are similarly tainted, many people in China, especially the aged, now refuse to take capsuled medication.''

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