The vaccine scandal breaks out in China

Chinese authorities have ordered an investigation into a failed vaccine scandal ,

It turned out last week that the pharmaceutical company Shang Xing Bio-Technology had falsified data on the production of its rabies vaccine

The company has received the order of the stop production and remove rabies vaccines from markets. No evidence of damage to the vaccine, but the scandal caused a sensation in China.

Sunday, a student called Rhea "We will crack down on illegal and criminal acts that threaten the safety and lives of people, and we will severely punish those who violate the law," said Li Keqiang, a Chinese minister. In accordance with the law, and we strongly condemn the breach of duty and censorship. "

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How did all this happen?

Shang Shun Shangxing, a subsidiary of Shang Shing Bio Technology , was falsified production data

According to the Xinhua official news agency, a manager said that the company "falsified production records and product inspection records", as well as " arbitrarily changing standards and equipment "during production.

The Chinese Food and Drug Administration stated that the rabies vaccine had been withdrawn from the markets and that the company would be the object of

Several days later, the authorities of Jilin Province announced that the amount of pertussis vaccine was below the required level.The Government Information Center "CGTN", more than 250 000 d oses of this amount of vaccine vaccine (19659005) and the authorities fined 3.4 million yuan ($ 510,000) to the company

According to the Chinese Food and Drug Administration, there is no indication that the vaccine has been affected by the vaccine.

The concern has now been postponed on the safety of whooping cough.

The number of children who have received the vaccine is not yet known, but there is no report of children infected after the vaccine.

The Chinese government has not mentioned anything about the impact that could be

What was the reaction?

Anger reigns among the public

A user of the Chinese website "I think thousands of mothers across the country are worried, and that could affect more than 200,000 children."

"My son must be vaccinated next month, I do not know if I should leave him or not."

Chinese censorship treated the case as very sensitive. A widely circulated article referring to mysterious practices in the Chinese vaccine industry has been removed.

Shang Shing Bio Technology, the parent company of Shang Shun Shangxing, apologized for the incident, stating that she was "guilty and embarrbaded"

This is not the first time that substandard vaccines have been produced in China.

In 2016, it was revealed that a group of hundreds of people were producing vaccines that did not meet the specifications.

A value of $ 88 million was not sufficiently cooled and was not transported under approved conditions.