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China Syndrome
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Currently, Zantac is out of production due to a chicom chemical spiked with a carcinogen, no extra charge. If a US manufacture was selling tainted chemicals and pharmaceuticals into China, the Chinese would have full recourse in US courts. Try suing a chicom owned manufacture in China and see what you get. You could try to recover in the US, but the chicom assets located in the US would be minimal.
Still surprised that the US drug companies are still so reliant on cheating bastards like the chicoms. Baxter was the manufacturer of heparin in the US and got the sh*t (rightfully so) sued out of them for the US deaths. Maybe they are making the chicom manufacturers post a bond, but I doubt it.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
CHINA SYNDROME: U.S. Dependence on Pharmaceutical Products From China. Seems like a bad idea. “While the potential exposure to raw material supply disruptions drives part of our fear, concern about the safety and efficacy of Chinese-made pharmaceuticals is another component. In the summer of 2018, one of China’s largest domestic vaccine makers sold at least 250,000 substandard doses of vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough. It was the latest in a slew of scandals caused by poor quality drug products made in China over the last decade. In 2008, the contamination of a raw ingredient imported from China and used to make heparin, a blood-thinning drug, was associated with at least eighty-one deaths the United States. According to an investigative journalist, fraud and manipulation of quality data is still endemic in Chinese pharmaceutical firms.”
Still surprised that the US drug companies are still so reliant on cheating bastards like the chicoms. Baxter was the manufacturer of heparin in the US and got the sh*t (rightfully so) sued out of them for the US deaths. Maybe they are making the chicom manufacturers post a bond, but I doubt it.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
CHINA SYNDROME: U.S. Dependence on Pharmaceutical Products From China. Seems like a bad idea. “While the potential exposure to raw material supply disruptions drives part of our fear, concern about the safety and efficacy of Chinese-made pharmaceuticals is another component. In the summer of 2018, one of China’s largest domestic vaccine makers sold at least 250,000 substandard doses of vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough. It was the latest in a slew of scandals caused by poor quality drug products made in China over the last decade. In 2008, the contamination of a raw ingredient imported from China and used to make heparin, a blood-thinning drug, was associated with at least eighty-one deaths the United States. According to an investigative journalist, fraud and manipulation of quality data is still endemic in Chinese pharmaceutical firms.”
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Not to dismiss the premise here or change the subject, but I wonder if this is like the saccharine causes cancer scare in the 1970’s. Where it turns out you’d have to eat an unattainable amount to matter. Seems like we’ve had a lot of those “scares” like that in the last 50 years. All the way to now with cow farts and 12 years to do SOMETHING. But this time it’s different....
Hijack over.
“The FDA said last month that some ranitidine medications -- including those known by the brand name Zantac -- contain low levels of an impurity that could cause cancer.+
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/health/cvs-zantac-pulled-cancer-trnd/index.html
“This isn’t some new, bad manufacturing process overseas like what happened with valsartan and losartan,” Light said. “It is our view that this problem with ranitidine has been there since the 1980s.
"It's a much more serious issue."
Valisure tested Zantac in stomach-like fluids with and without added nitrites, chemicals commonly found in foods and the body. When those chemicals were added, Valisure found NDMA levels for one tablet of Zantac reached more than 3,100 times the FDA's daily threshold.
Light said testing the drug with added nitrites created "stomach relevant" conditions.
"Ingesting nitrite-containing foods like hot dogs can significantly increase stomach levels of nitrite," Light said. "These foods are often eaten by individuals either before or after taking antacid products."
Studies pointing to risk date to 1980s
Light said studies conducted in the 1980s raised concern about potential safety risks. In a citizen petition to the FDA, Valisure said Zantac's originator, Glaxo Research Group, conducted its own study in 1987 "after numerous studies raised concerns" about ranitidine.
The Glaxo study examined stomach contents of people who took the drug. It found people had no significant increase in nitrosamines such as NDMA within 24 hours of taking ranitidine.
Light said the study's testing methods were less accurate and researchers discarded stomach samples that contained ranitidine. Without those samples, researchers would not find NDMA or nitrosamines that form as a result of taking the drug, Light said.
Because China pays Scott well
It’s also the manufactures though. Glaxo is a manufacturer. But thanks for the info.
Studies pointing to risk date to 1980s
Light said studies conducted in the 1980s raised concern about potential safety risks. In a citizen petition to the FDA, Valisure said Zantac's originator, Glaxo Research Group, conducted its own study in 1987 "after numerous studies raised concerns" about ranitidine.
The Glaxo study examined stomach contents of people who took the drug. It found people had no significant increase in nitrosamines such as NDMA within 24 hours of taking ranitidine.
Light said the study's testing methods were less accurate and researchers discarded stomach samples that contained ranitidine. Without those samples, researchers would not find NDMA or nitrosamines that form as a result of taking the drug, Light said.
Light said the Stanford study and his lab's own analysis shows the potential health risk for people who took the drug.
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