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Fears about domestically produced vaccines are repeated in China. (Photo EPA)
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese censors on Sunday suppressed articles and articles on the vaccine industry, which sparked an online outcry against the country's latest vaccine scandal
. a large pharmaceutical company in the northeast after finding invented documents and other problems during an inspection.
It was just the latest in a series of health and safety scandals that fueled the fear of food and medicine.
Chinese censors and regulators struggled to keep abad of public response, suppressing messages on WeChat as state media tried to take control of the story.
announced that he had ordered that all production be stopped at the vaccine manufacturer and initiated an investigation.
Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology is the Second Largest Manufacturer in China The Rabies Vaccine and a Subsidiary of a Leading Stockpile Vaccine Manufacturer
Raised Concern Over the Weekend , in the form of an essay alleging corruption and dark practices in the vaccine industry. Internet users have republished the self-edited essay as censors to delete the content.
The CFDA said last week that the problematic rabies vaccine had not left the Changsheng factory
. has already stopped production of another vaccine – against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough – that regulators found poor last year and also attracted public attention [19659010].
The South China Morning Post reported Sunday that Chinese parents say they lost confidence in the system after the discovery of a major drug maker providing inferior vaccines that were given to children. babies as young as three months old.
Jilin's Food and Drug Administration revealed the vaccine safety scandal on its website on Friday. After an investigation, Changchun Changsheng biotechnology company based in Jilin sold some 252,600 DTC vaccines of inferior quality to the Shandong Disease Prevention and Control Center, the agency in charge of public health in a province of China. 39, about 100 million people. Newborns receive vaccines in an Aksu hospital. Police arrested 37 people for vaccine sales that could have expired. (Photo Reuters)
In Beijing, an official of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention told local paper The Paper that parents in the Chinese capital did not have to worry: " Beijing has none of these two vaccines in question
Guangdong and Sichuan regulators, quoted by the state-owned broadcaster CCTV, told residents that problematic vaccines from Changsheng had not been put to available to them in their province.
But CCTV acknowledged that 250,000 doses of problematic vaccine
The Communist Party said Sunday that local regulators needed to "act swiftly, conduct a full investigation and announce in a timely manner the information making Authority to Calm Public Anxiety "
] CCTV listed the questions the public needed to answer and noted that the local regulator overseeing Changsheng had hung up on r calls from reporters or refused to answer the phone. 19659004] A similar scandal erupted in Shandong in 2016, involving the improper storage, transportation and sale of vaccines worth tens of millions of dollars – many of which have expired.
For parents, there are also parallels with the most notorious incident of recent years. Some 300,000 children became ill, including six dying, in a case involving melamine-contaminated milk powder in 2008.
