World Standards Day: Recognizing How Standards Enable a Strong Medicines Supply Chain
Quality Matters
OCTOBER 13, 2021
In 2007 and 2008, nearly 150 patients died and hundreds more suffered serious adverse reactions after they were treated with heparin, a commonly used blood-thinning drug. Heparin is made from pig intestines, which at that time in China were subject to sharp price increases due to widespread pig deaths from “blue ear disease.”
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