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February 29, 2008

Hoppy Leap Day Truthseekers!

As if Bush's press conference yesterday wasn't nauseating enough, we have an ongoing story from the New York Times that'll kill 'ya. Perhaps literally. So taking a brief respite from political news let's examine how unregulated capitalism and corporate greed in the Big Pharmaceutical companies' search for cheap ingredients is threatening our lives.

"With reports of more than 400 patients in the United States suffering serious complications after receiving the blood-thinner heparin, American investigators are trying to determine whether the raw material for the drug, made from pig intestines, became contaminated on the journey that begins in the slaughterhouses of China" begins the front-page article in yesterday's New York Times.

The story continues: "The Chinese heparin market has become increasingly unsettled over the last year, as pig disease has swept through the country, depleting stocks, leading some farmers to sell sick pigs into the market and forcing heparin producers to scramble for new sources of raw material. Traders and industry experts say even big companies have been turning more often to the small village workshops, which are unregulated and often unsanitary . . . . A sales manager for another large slaughterhouse in Shandong Province, north of Jiangsu, said he was approached late last year by a buyer for SPL , an American company, offering what he described as rock-bottom prices for crude heparin. 'It was impossible,' said the sales manager, Wang Shengfu, who works for Shandong Jinluo Group, a major producer of crude heparin. 'Only small factory-style farms could accept that low price.'�

What price do you put on a human life? How utilitarian can you get?

Today's issue of the NY TImes offered another front-pager, a follow up to the story: "Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug regulators said Thursday that they had found �potential deficiencies� at a Chinese plant that supplied much of the active ingredient for the drug. Baxter International, which makes the brand of heparin associated with the problems, and buys supplies from the Chinese plant, announced that it was expanding a recall to include virtually all its heparin products. . . . The F.D.A. admitted this month that it had violated its own policy by failing to inspect SPL, located west of Shanghai, before the factory began shipping the heparin ingredient to Baxter in 2004. China�s drug agency also did not inspect the plant."

This should be a warning for all you Libertarians out there - wanna get rid of the FDA or is it smarter to reform it? Could be your life at stake. Or your kids. Or your mother. Is it worth it?

We'll discuss this, plus a weekly wrap-up of all the major newsmakers on the program tonight!

--KBM

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