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More China PR to clean up bad products |
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Written by Stumo
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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Reuters reports China declares 'war' on tainted products. For four months, apparently. Their food and drug administration equivalent approved 150,000 new drugs
last year, compared with the U.S. FDA approving 140. I think
any clean up effort will take more time. Kind of like building
the Great Wall.
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