Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has opened a large-scale investigation into the sale of 250,000 faulty rabies vaccines that have caused outrage across China. The Premier wants “severe punishment” for any persons or corporate entities found to be responsible.
Social media anger and angst over a pharmaceutical company selling defective vaccines caused Chinese officials to take an extremely hard stance over the matter.
Jilin-based Changsheng Biotechnology has been ordered by the Chinese government to cease production of its rabies vaccine. After authorities were tipped off, they searched Jilin-based Changsheng Biotechnology and found a number of falsified inspection records. The company’s stock market filing claims they are in trouble due to “substandard” DPT vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus.
The #Changsheng had 470 million views over the weekend.
“Mr. Ambassador, tell Mr. Trump, liberate China. We don’t want our children and grandchildren to be persecuted by their vaccines.” One commenter on China’s social media said.
Other reactions were just as severe:
In a civilized society, it would never cross one’s mind to risk the health of children for the sake of his own profit. But not in China. In China many people have a prudential, not a moral, objection to causing harm. If they don’t get caught, anything goes. #Changsheng pic.twitter.com/12pXrPDxj1
— HONNE CAPITAL (@HONNECAP) July 23, 2018
Breaking news out of China: #Changsheng vaccine case. “People ask why I don’t have children. It’s because I don’t want my child to drink tainted milk powder, to be injected with fake vaccines.”https://t.co/g0274U2C7K
— HONNE CAPITAL (@HONNECAP) July 23, 2018
#China #Changsheng Technology produces fake drugs for rabies vaccine, which is terrible@WHOhttps://t.co/BifDN6jeZx pic.twitter.com/EOQy9jAWFk
— 0day Database (@0dayDB) July 23, 2018
In the province of Shandong alone, 250,000 rabies vaccines were sold.
In 2016, the province of Shandong gained notoriety when $90 million worth of vaccines were found to have been improperly stored yet still sold all throughout China.
The company issued a “deepest apology” in response to the allegations. China’s FDA said that all production at Jilin-based Changsheng Biotechnology has been stopped until further notice. So far, no injuries have been reported, however, the Chinese people are a rather untrusting bunch when it comes to China’s FDA safety protocols and enforcement following a 2008 fallout after milk powder tainted with melamine injured 300,000 kids and killed six.
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