In latest scare, China finds fake veterinary drugs
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Almost one-fifth of veterinary drugs tested in China in the first quarter were not up to standard, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday, unveiling a long list of fake products.
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China risks damaging its credibility if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official newspaper said on Monday amid a series of health scares over toxic drugs, foods, toys and other products.
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Vaccines for sale online can be dangerous, and sellers could be perpetrating credit card fraud.
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The US drug safety watchdog warned Monday on its website that several Chinese-made 'dietary supplements' contain the active ingredient found in Viagra, and could be harmful to consumers.
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Research published earlier this year showing that avian influenza had been found in pigs in 2001 and 2003 went unnoticed outside China because the results appeared in Chinese language journals, according to a news item in the journal Nature.
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A health scare in Washington state over fake flu shots appears to be over with news that the injections were, in fact, real after all.
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The Food and Drug Administration has accused an equine compounding pharmacy of illegally making and selling animal drugs.
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China risks damaging its global credibility and provoking social instability if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official said in a rare admission amid a series of scares over tainted products.
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China, responding to complaints from the public, has banned advertisements for medical treatments and procedures in a bid to halt bogus claims of wonder drugs and clean up an unregulated health industry.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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BEIJING -- China said yesterday that it was investigating the sale of fake blood protein, a potentially dangerous and widespread practice that underscores the country's problems with product safety.
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The UN says fake prescription drugs are swamping developing nations with sometimes fatal results.
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A state-owned Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs.
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More than half of all Viagra and other impotence drugs sold worldwide on the internet are fake, according to an undercover inquiry.
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Counterfeit medicines, some of them sold over the Internet, are swamping unregulated markets in developing nations with sometimes fatal results, the U.N. drug control watchdog said on Thursday.
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China will severely punish companies that produce fake and poor quality rabies vaccines, the country's food and drug watchdog said on Thursday, after several people reportedly died from substandard vaccines.
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.