Bang: Another China vaccine scandal
Reuters: "The Food and Drug Administration said in a
statement on Sunday evening that its investigation had found that
Changsheng fabricates [vaccine] production records and product
inspection records, and arbitrarily changes process parameters and
equipment, 'serious violations' of the law."
By Jon Rappoport
Tainted products from China? Who ever heard of such a thing? Isn't China the most quality-conscious nation on the planet? No?
Here's a headline on this story from fiercepharma.com (7/17): "Top
Chinese rabies vaccine maker ordered to stop production over forged
data." Oops.
Fiercepharma: "China's drug regulator just pulled a
manufacturing permit for the country's second-largest maker of rabies
vaccines over data falsification, marking the latest episode in China's
drug safety scandal."
"During an inspection, China's State Drug Administration
found Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences forged production records for
its Vero cell-based rabies vaccines. The agency immediately moved to
revoke the company's GMP license tied to the vaccine---just three months
after its issuance---and dispatched a team to investigate the incident
on site, according to a Sunday statement..."
"In its announcement filed to Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the
Changchun, China-based company said it has started recalling all
unexpired rabies vaccines, even though the batches under question
weren't released to the market, and it hasn't received any adverse event
report related to the quality of the vaccines through years of
monitoring."
"Changsheng's recent scandal comes eight months after a
batch, or 252,600 doses, of its diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (DTP) combo
shot was found below the potency requirement. It also comes
shortly after the company became one of the first two companies to get
Chinese approvals for quadrivalent flu vaccines."
"Besides rabies, DTP and flu vaccines, Changsheng also sells
vaccines against chickenpox, hepatitis A and group ACYW meningococcal. A
small proportion of its business comes from abroad, including India,
Cambodia, Egypt and Belarus, among others. It's not yet clear whether it
sells its rabies vaccines outside of China."
CNBC drops this bomb: "It [the current China vaccine scandal]
is very much a case of deja vu. China's pharmaceutical industry has
been exposed to a slew of scandals recently. Zhejiang Huahai
Pharmaceutical, a Shanghai-listed drug maker, found a toxic impurity
called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in ingredients it exports to
medicines for treating hypertension in laboratory tests. The substance, a
by-product of industrial processes, is toxic to the liver and
classified as a carcinogen for its ability to cause cancer in humans."
I issued an extensive warning about China pharma in 2017. Here it is:
I'll put it to you this way. Your child is about to get
vaccinated. You believe in the efficacy of vaccines. In the doctor's
office, there is a large wheel. It has two sections. One is marked:
'this injection for your child comes from the US or Germany.' The other
section is marked: 'this injection for your child might come from China,
or if not, the raw ingredients in the shot might come from China, and,
keep in mind that even if the injection and the raw ingredients don't
come from China, in a pinch, because the Chinese vaccines are cheap, the
US might buy the injection or the ingredients from China-now spin the
wheel...and let's see where the arrow stops...for your child'.
In the spring of 2016, a vaccine scandal erupted in China.
Time Magazine reported:
"Furious parents and health care professionals in China are
demanding to know how almost $90 million of improperly stored and
potentially fatal vaccines were distributed across some two-thirds of
the country over the past five years, in the latest public-health
scandal to raise serious questions over the efficacy of the Chinese
Communist Party's rule."
"According to state media, a mother and daughter from eastern
China's Shandong province have been caught peddling 25 kinds of
unrefrigerated vaccines - including for polio, mumps, rabies, hepatitis
B, encephalitis and meningococcal diseases - to medical facilities
across 24 Chinese provinces since 2010."
"Inflaming the public backlash, authorities had apparently
known about the case since last April, though only publicized the news
late Friday in a belated attempt to trace potential victims. Moreover,
the elder suspect, a 47-year-old woman surnamed Pang, had apparently
been convicted of the same offense in 2009 but only received a suspended
sentence. State media admitted the compromised inoculations could have
resulted in paralysis and even death."
"'Twenty-four provinces, five years already, and how many
children! It's been nearly a year and then they reveal this! Isn't this
genocide? Words cannot express how angry I am!' posted one user of
China's Twitter-like microblog Weibo, reports the BBC."
"'This is a matter of life and death,'" one Beijing-based
doctor told Radio Free Asia. 'They should make an announcement about
this as soon as possible ... so we can locate these items and cut off
the supply, so no more people are harmed.'"
Major media couldn't even keep their stories straight.
The NY Times, reporting on the China scandal, and relying on
the World Health Organization (a PR front for the vaccine industry) took
an assuring tone:
"Despite such fears, the tainted vaccines are more likely to
be ineffective than harmful...The World Health Organization has said
that outdated or poorly stored vaccines rarely if ever trigger illness
or toxic reactions. Chinese government investigators said last week that
they had not found any cases of adverse reactions or spikes in
infections linked to ineffective vaccines."
Really?
Perhaps editors at the NY Times and the World Health
Organization would like to prove their faith and confidence by taking
shots in the arm of those spoiled vaccines.
Now, here are quotes from an excellent article by Marco
Caceres at thevaccinereaction.org (4/13/16). The article points up the
uncertainty about whether processed and/or raw vaccine ingredients are
entering the US from China:
"The past few weeks, there have been a series of news reports
coming out of China revealing that thousands of doses of improperly
stored and expired vaccines for children and adults were illegally sold
for millions of dollars on the black market by more than 100 people
associated with Chinese companies and vaccination centers."
"Most Americans do not understand that many pharmaceutical
products, including vaccines, are not made in the United States and
foreign pharmaceutical companies are not subject to U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) quality control regulations."
"It is unclear what percentage of the vaccines currently used
in the United States are made by Chinese pharmaceutical companies in
China or by Western companies with manufacturing facilities in China. We
do know that major U.S. and European vaccine makers such as Merck &
Co., GlaxoSmithKline plc, and Sanofi Pasteur SA maintain vaccine
manufacturing operations in China, that this activity is on the rise,
and that Western vaccine makers are also establishing joint venture
partnerships with Chinese vaccine companies."
"Consequently, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish
which vaccines are manufactured by American and European firms and which
are produced by the Chinese. A 2012 article in USA Today, however, did
report that the FDA estimates that 80% of the ingredients in
pharmaceuticals [only drugs, or vaccines as well?] produced by U.S.
companies and 40% of the 'finished medications' Americans take come from
outside the U.S. and, increasingly they come from China and India."
"The article cited a U.S. Government Accountability Office
(GAO) report that found the FDA inspects drug manufacturing facilities
in China and India only once every 14 years, and that FDA inspectors are
not permitted to enter those facilities unannounced. USA Today noted
that, according to the GAO report, 'Up to two-thirds of foreign
pharmaceutical sites have never undergone an FDA inspection'."
So: even if you believe in the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, do you want to spin the big wheel in the doctor's office? Do
you want to take a chance? Do you want to have your child injected?
Do you want to say, "Well, the news media and the government
and the experts and the doctors all tell me vaccines are safe, so I'll
go along with that. I'll believe. And I'll risk the future and the life
of my child on that belief."
Do you?
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