The head supervision at China’s Food and Drug Administration Li Guoqing told reporters at a press conference on Thursday that the woman at the center of an illegal vaccine scandal had previously been given a suspended jail sentence for a similar crime but was allowed to re-offend, Reuters reported. US$90 million worth of expired or […]
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Police have detained 37 people in Shandong province in connection with a scandal in which a mother and daughter are alleged to have illegally bought US$90 million worth of improperly stored vaccines for meningitis, rabies and other illnesses from traders and sold them to re-sellers across China, Reuters reported, citing state news agency Xinhua. China’s drug […]
A study testing for 21 common antibiotics found traces of at least one variety in 80% of 505 schoolchildren tested in Shanghai, Reuters reported, citing media reports on research published by Fudan University. The Fudan study included both human and veterinary antibiotics. Some individual antibiotics, including those normally used in farming, were detected in nearly one-third of […]
The China Food and Drug Administration has announced the suspension of its electronic pharmaceutical products monitoring system run by Alibaba Health Information Technology while the it drafts amendments to regulations on the monitoring of drug sales in China, Reuters reported, citing a statement published to the regulator’s website. The regulator said it would seek comments […]
The sentencing of 15 alleged hospital ticket scalpers to up to two years in prison as part of a public crackdown on the practice may ultimately make little difference according to one experienced cardiologist being cited prominently by state media, China Medical News reported. Professor Yang Qing, who has worked for two decades at the […]