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Vol. 32 No. 30 • FRIDAY, August 3, 2018

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India recalls vaccines made by tainted China firm

EW DELHI, India | AFP | Wednesday 8/1/2018 - India has ordered an immediate recall of rabies vaccines made by a scandal-hit Chinese comby Nova Sfo pany, India's drug regulator said / with Antoine Wednesday, complaining it only Boyar in Washfound out about possible problems ington through media reports. H I S. Eswara Reddy, the drug conCAGO troller general, told AFP that it | AFP | has also put a temporary stop on 8/1/2018 - A US fresh imports of the vaccine made gun rights advoby Changchun Changsheng after it cate began gearemerged that it had fabricated reing up for a legal cords, in the latest product safety fight Wednesscare to rock China. day to be able to publish on"We have stopped the import of line blueprints the rabies vaccines for the time befor 3D-printed Eight US states and the District of Columbia have argued in court ing. An investigation is going on firearms, as the that the blueprints available online to make untraceable, undetectable and till then the import is prohibWhite House plastic weapons like this single-shot "Liberator" handgun could fall ited," Reddy said. signaled sup- into the wrong hands. AFP Photo. "Whatever vaccines were alport for a federal ready imported they are being judge's decision recalled. As per law the import liColumbia sued, arguing the blueto block the venprints could allow anyone -- from cence holder should have informed ture. a teen to a 'lone wolf' gunman -- to us if there was a problem with the Cody Wilson's Texas-based com- make untraceable, undetectable overseas supplier but he did not inpany Defense Distributed had brief- plastic weapons. form us." ly made the blueprints available onRabies kills an estimated 20,000 Wilson complied with the judge's line, but Seattle-based US District people in India every year, accordorder, but put out a call for finanJudge Robert Lasnik granted an injunction Tuesday to take the ma- cial support for the legal battle ing to the government's National ahead, including a scheduled Au- Rabies Control Programme. terial down. gust 10 court hearing. China's latest product-safety scanThe Donald Trump administraHe told CBS News ahead of the dal emerged more than a week ago tion last month gave permission for Wilson to publish the blueprints, but injunction that he believes "access with news that Changchun Changthe White House said Wednesday to firearms is a fundamental human sheng Biotechnology was ordered the president was unaware of the dignity. It's a fundamental human to cease production of its rabies vaccines. decision and was glad it was being right." reviewed. The Chinese government has said Continued on Page 12 the suspect vaccine did not enter the Eight US states and the District of

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Drug manufacturer Changchun Changsheng is under investigation in China after it emerged the company had fabricated records. AFP photo.

market, but there are fears the substandard vaccines may have been imported not only to India but also Cambodia and Egypt. The World Health Organization's office in China said it did not have information on which countries may have imported the vaccine. But its staff "had seen evidence that a domestic and foreign recall of the affected vaccine was initiated in mid-July", WHO said in an email reply to AFP. The vaccine case has provoked unusually strong outrage from Chinese consumers fed up with recurring safety scandals.

Parents have vented anger online, prompting the ruling Communist Party's internet censors to swoop in and purge mention of the issue. The anger was exacerbated by the additional revelation that Changsheng's vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) had also failed to meet quality standards, but that 250,000 doses were nonetheless sold last year. China is regularly hit by scandals involving unsafe food, drugs or other products despite repeated official promises to root out the corruption and shoddy manufacturing that is usually blamed.

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