Yet Baxter and its supplier SPL went off to China to get Heparin. The reason of course was to save pennies on each dose. Somehow, someone at Baxter decided that maintaining manufacturing and quality control over this most dangerous of products wasn’t as important as those pennies per dose.
The problem for American society is that China, despite its communist political system, always seems to be motivated by the “green” in greed equation. The irony of that now is that even though China is seen as the world’s worst polluter, they appear to be poised to receive the green, for Going Green.
On Point, the NPR program/podcast did an excellent piece on China’s Going Green, “Green China & the Clean-Tech Race”. To get the Podcast from September 30th go to http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/09/green-china-and-the-clean-tech-race
The program listing begins with this teaser:
“On Capitol Hill today, the Senate introduces a bill meant to slow global warming. Meanwhile, back on the wind farm, American entrepreneurs are taking the problem seriously — as an environmental threat but also as the next great economic prize.
“In China, the government says it’s determined to become a green superpower — or risk drowning in its own pollution.
“Some say the next great global race is on — the clean-tech race — and that China’s entry is a “Sputnik moment.”
“Has America heard the wake-up call? Is there a clean-energy race to be won or lost? This hour, On Point: China, the U.S., and the clean-energy future.”One of the guests in this podcast is Michael Splinter, whose American based firm, Applied Materials, is about to open the world’s largest privately funded solar research facility — in Xian, China. For more on Splinter and his company go to http://www.appliedmaterials.com/about/bio_michael_splinter.html
The Heparin Catastrophe is not just a crisis about the safety of American pharmaceuticals. It is also a crisis about American jobs, technology and economic growth. If the greed equation results in the U.S. corporations exporting the manufacturer and development of this next tech explosion to China, our prosperity made be forever compromised.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
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