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China Exports Poisoned Medicine While FDA Cuts Back Labs

Here’s what I’ve been up to today: I wrote a diary at Daily Kos that’s in the recommended list and getting a lot of comments. Ordinarily, I don’t post my stories about contaminated food here, but this story also pertains to medicines exported by China and to the evisceration of the FDA by the Bush administration. In Panama alone, 365 people have died from medication — including cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — tainted with antifreeze-like chemicals by unscrupulous Chinese exporters. Check it out at Daily Kos: The story-only version, and the story-and-comments version.