According to the Dow Jones Newswire, Rep. Joe Barton, R.-Texas, “is pressuring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for more information about contaminated heparin from China amid concerns that the agency doesn’t know what caused U.S. patients to get sick or die while taking the blood thinner last year.”
Barton is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee which held hearings last year. He has written a letter to the FDA demanding the agency turnover databases on the Heparin contamination. According to Dow Jones:
Barton is trying to determine whether anyone in China has been held responsible for contaminating heparin that ultimately sickened and killed U.S. citizens.It is time that the FDA went public with all it knows about the Heparin Catastrophe. Freedom of Information Requests have been pending before the agency for more than a year now. What does the FDA know? Why are they not telling the American public about the full breadth of this poisoning?
“We don’t seem to be any further along a year later from understanding” this issue, said an Republican staffer for the committee, who asked not to be named. “What are they doing about it? Is this an acceptable practice in China?”
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