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China Is Becoming the Biggest Producer of Pharmaceutical Ingredients in the World
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GARDINER HARRIS
The New York Times
November 3, 2008
In the belly of an industrial district south of Lyon, France, just past a sulfurous oil refinery and a synthetic vanilla plant, sits a run-down, eight-story factory that makes aspirin, the first pharmaceutical blockbuster. The Lyon factory is the last of its kind. No other major facility in Europe or the United States makes generic aspirin anymore. The market has been taken over by low-cost Chinese producers. Even Bayer, the German company that created aspirin in the 1890s and has fought for more than a century to distinguish its product as the most trustworthy one, now has backup supplies from China.
The Lyon plant is owned by a French chemical giant named Rhodia that has been making aspirin since 1908 and still accounts for more than 25 percent of the world’s aspirin market. But now a century after its entry into the business, the company intends to quit making aspirin altogether. The plant was last renovated in 1992, and it would need an upgrade to continue operating, an investment the company can no longer justify in what has become a cutthroat business. In fact, Rhodia is closing another factory about 40 miles to the south. This one makes the painkiller acetaminophen, which is found in Tylenol. It, too, is the last such facility in Western Europe.
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In some ways, this is a nonevent. European factories close; Chinese ones open. Consumers like their commodities cheap, in the case of aspirin as with everything else. China now produces about two-thirds of all aspirin and is poised to become the world’s sole global supplier in the not-too-distant future. But are the Chinese factories safe? Who knows? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency and other competent government regulators rarely, if ever, inspect them. (By contrast, Rhodia’s plant was last inspected by the F.D.A. in July and is routinely inspected by one country or another.) Companies that import Chinese pharmaceutical ingredients, including aspirin, are required to test the supplies before using them, and some send private inspectors to China to ensure that suppliers use adequate controls. No pharmaceutical maker wants its name to become synonymous with disaster, and the vast majority of drugs that are consumed in the United States are safe. But some industry executives told me that price sensitivity in the generics industry makes it more difficult to fully vet their low-cost suppliers.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
It is hard to buy non-chinese products.
But buying American is that important to me.
Your health depends on it.
Get back to the fundamentals our grandparents taught us.
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
This is baaaaaad. China has the WORST record in history for protecting human health. I’ve never trusted patent medicines, prefering herbs (which work amazingly well, by the way). Chinese medicine is the best way I’ve found to trear myself and family with herbs (ironic, eh). That said, I started using manufactured preparations of herbs from China and every one of them made me sick to my stomach, so I did some research. Suffice it to say they put toxic filler CRAP in everything they produce for human consumption.
Want to stay healthy? Get organic herbal tinctures of Mullin, Astragalus, Echinacea, and Milk Thistle. Put 40 drops each into a little bit of water and drink that 4 times a day for the rest of your life. I haven’t been the slightest bit ill since I started doing that. I have cronic liver disease and my Dr. says my liver is functioning completely normally, which is very rare for someone with my condition. The Mullin is for your gut and lungs, the Astragalus is probably the most powerful anti-viral found in nature, Echinacea too, and the Milk Thistle is a powerful liver protectant and healer. Beat the NWO, stay strong, healthy, and ALIVE!
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
stock tips anyone?
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
Remember not too long ago the fda/govt did not want folks to buy drugs from Canada, not safe they said. How ironic that the China products are known not to be safe, but that is okay if a buck can be made. This contry is living in the money shitter and does not want leave.
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
Just one more reason NOT to buy pharmacy drugs, get right with herbalism, grow your own in such a way they cannot be tainted by aerosol spraying, there are multitudes of plants for eating and medicinal purposes.
Learn them know them….live them and cut the chicoms throats…a little added bonus.
Also, study Tsun Tzu, you will see how it is their goal to desstroy and over taske us, their enemy without destroying our land and without conventional and especially wiothout non-conventional warfare.
It is too bad such an inherantly smart people have fallen to communism and are now the instrument of our destructio0n, at the same time, communism has infested our formerly free republic.
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
I don’t know where to begin:
The US(and God knows who else) have without a doubt recieved the following products from China that have went on record as being directly associated with deaths:
Poision toothpaste
Poision fish shipped in
Poison pet foods
Baby formula/milk(in China) ..no direct reports anywhere outside Chna.
Lead painted toys(no deaths reported yet).
When do we as people catch on? Or is all about the price? At some point you have to choose how you may die.
I am lucky I suppose.. I am not on any “life saving” medications required from day to day life to exist. I realise many are and that is unfortunate ..or may be in the future. Imagine taking each prescription becoming like playing Russian Roullette. And remeber.. The US has recently pssed laws where Big Pharma is off the hook as far as liability goes. It all goes hand in hand.
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
To all CITIZENS:
Its quite simple – If a product does not have a label of origin, ask your vendors, stores and merchants where it was made, grown or produced. If they cannot provide you with an asnswer, or if it is from China, THEN DON’T BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And tell them why.
The choice is simple. Face the danger of being poisoned or DO NOT BUY IT.
Boycott ALL Chinese made and produced goods.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Somthing I ran into on the net and thought all you truth warriors would love to hear.
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” – Benjamin Franklin
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Stock up ! stock up! stock up !!!! While money is still worth something and basics and health products are still available . If you hear the people who are willing to speak the truth about the economy , it is dire . Pain killers , liquid soaps , matches , bandages , plastic bags , two liter bottles for water storage , plastic sheets ( line your bath tub it can hold a lot of water ) . All of this will make
your life much easier and cleaner . Any medical supply you can get now will be more valuable than you ever imagined . Another hint – Try to find a bedside toilet ( Like ones at nursing homes ) . With all those plastic walmart and grocery bags , you can have a toilet that is easier to maintain . Beats a hole in the ground and can be found cheap if you look ( garage sales ect. ) If you have ever gone camping (real camping ) you know how fast things get dirty and contaminated .
Even though I have been in the medical field for 13 years , I do not take vaccines ( especially since
China has taken over production ) and take as little painkillers as possible . Using fillers is a practice in the east that has been going on for years . I worked with immigrants from the east and
asked them why that happens . They said stopping production ( for any reason) or not meeting
cost goals is unthinkable . In countries where , if you lose your job , you may not get another one
for a long time . You will do anything to meet their demands . So , when you run out of an ingredient or you can substitute one to cut costs you do it . We are only realizing this now because
we see these products more and more on our shelves . Avoid Chinese or eastern made products if
you can . Now is the time , get ready.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
all pill’s r poison.doesn’t matter where they r produced..45% of u reading this are trapped on them to..good luck with that..lol
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Your future is a Chinese world domination and not a nice one.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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November 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
This is a fantastic idea they did a terrific job on the toys, the pet food and the candy.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I am sickened to read this. now, we can not even trust aspirin!
Time to get back to nature and learn about the proper herbs to use.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
http://www.desmoinesregister.c.....3014/1001/
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Obama Sucks! It’s got to be his fault!
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
“Melamine for the masses.” That seems to be China’s export industry’s mantra. Almost all the vitamin C pills in the U.S. are made in China and may well have melamine in them. That’s really the toxic filler CRAP in everything they produce for human consumption. China probably pruduces the sodium fluoride our municipal water plants seems to need. I also find it interesting that if somebody is found with heroin on them in China they face the death penalty.
Alex Jones is right to point out that many people can’t be awakened because they’re delusional and in denial. It’s not sowing discord among brethren to speak truth. The brethren simply need to pray for truth to be revealed to them. Sowing discord among brethren is when believers spread heresy and lies for material or personal gain.
God bless America!
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I’m not suprised, but that’s the scary part of it all….
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Boycott China full stop learn to make things yourself & teach your children how to. Go back to nature for your remedies & learn holistic medicine. Naturalnews.com is a good place to start. Boycott walmart (ASDA here in UK) and all the big corporations, shop local, learn to repair instead of replace, grow your own food & barter your services to your community. The sheeple are the majority but we gain ground every day in this battle, let others see you do this & WSHTF watch them flock. Be kind to your neighbor’s and pity their ignorance. Forgive them father as they know not what they do! & I’m an atheist. Love all Ralphio
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
OMG !!! I am just so horrified….I just read the local paper….I wound up ripping it to schreads and stomping it on the floor, than i fell on my knees and screamed at any “god” who will listen.
I have bags and bags of dryed herbs that i grew and dryed, I have a thousand pounds of apples that i MUST process from a tree on an abandoned farm…I got buckets of food that i grew and dryed and canned….
I, myself. dont eat any food at at all, or take ANY kind of drugs…I dont need them cause i drink only fresh organic juice from the juicer, mostly carrott/beet/garlic, and, I keep my emotional body UN-repressed by bursting out in tears at least 20 times a day, tears dripping all over the food that i am CONSTANTLY prepareing, DRIVEN by this feeling of great URGENCY to at least try to have something to put into a hungry Human Child’s beautiful little mouth…OH HEART !
My neighbors all hate me and are all jealous of me….especally the fat assed, trashed out, buddist/christian, UGLY bitches….appartment houses surround my little placeI take them food from the garden…they still call the cops/code complyance on my milk cow and chickens and llamas and file complaints….they told me if i get any more animals or birds they will arrest me….i got 3 hens hidden in the shead . I swear to the great god of indifference i have to hide my chickens.
COME AND GET ME MOTHER FUCKERS
HERE I AM
A THIN LITTLE TARGET
EASY PICKENS
HELL,
IM HALF DEAD ALREADY ANYWAYS SENCE MY KIDS DIED IN THAT WRECK
THERE ARE CONNECTIONS ON THE ASTRAL
I WILL GO THERE AND RALLY ALL OF THE OTHER DEAD PEOPLE AGAINST YOU
WHAT EVER HAPPENS TO ME
HAPPENS TO YOU
THAN IT WILL BE YOU WHO MUST CRY THE HOT AND BITTER TEARS
TO REALIZE
THAT AFTER ALL YOU HAVE PUT INTO IT
YOU HAVE NOT WON !
OH HEART !
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Just eat organic white willow bark supplements, healthier and stronger than aspirin. Turmeric in the right doses can be more potent than Ibuprofen. They can keep their melamine aspirin and eat General Tso’s shit.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
It’s hard to boycott foreign manufacture of food and drugs when there is no country of origin standards nation wide.
We must force the disclosure of foreign products and ingredients so we can make the choices we need to make to help insure our health.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Wow, China and the FDA teaming up for silent Genocide.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Wasn’t it China that has manufactured poison eggs, milk, dog food, toys etc. . . this past year? If they are poisoning everyday products, then what are they doing to the medications? Philippians 4:13 ” I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.” Christ Jesus is the only way to heaven! Accept, follow, obey, and love as He did. All of the guns, ammo, and food will not SAVE you when the church is “caught up”(raptured) 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. The followers of Jesus are the light of this world, when that happens the world will be controlled by darkness. We all commit sins, but that is why God sent His only son to die on the cross(to save us from eternal death), so that we may accept, follow, and obey Christ and then when we do so we are “BORN AGAIN”.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Now if this doesn’t make you want to go the natural route…..NOTHING WILL!
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I say we test some nukes on China, even thought my husband’s sister is living there. Moving to China was her own stupid idea.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Boycott China & Fuck the WTO
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
__________________________________________
http://www.ExposingChristianity.com
The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Everything in Christianity has been blatantly stolen and corrupted from religions preceding it.
- Religious teachings intended for humanity to evolve spiritually were desecrated and replaced with Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which all use the use of fear, guilt etc. to keep humans from spiritual knowledge and using this power, of which all of us have.
Christianity is a very new religion in comparison to other religions it stole from that predated it by thousands of years.
The Judeo/Christian Bible is a corruption of stolen material that has been used to spiritually enslave humanity. All of the legends of the Gods are allegories. The Vatican and its cohorts have gained wealth, power, and control by forcing people to believe these allegories are literal places and characters.
Note “Jesus” the five letters represent the five elemtns- fire, earth, air, water, and quintessence of the human soul, the fictitious character was stolen from Pagan ALLEGORIES- note he was said to have lived “33 years” which correspond to the vertebrate of the human spine where the kundalini serpent ascends, which transforms the human mind and soul into superconsciousness.
- The survival and prosperity of this vicious hoax on humanity requires only ONE thing- a lack of knowledge.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
#28 Sharper
Man You sure got the name right : )
Just want You to know that i TOTALY resinate with Your truths AND Your vibration….
What You said and HOW You said it…..K, im going to that site now.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Number 28, you are a scum bag/ lying commie rat, uniformed propogandist.
You know nothing of the Torah, You talk crap about the Messaihs name, His name is NOT jesus, that is a greek name having connotations to the son of zeus.
You talk about the vatican rats, they are whores and the inventerrs of islam, they have nothing to do with what you understand is Christianity.
The stories you call allegorical are steadily proven true, foremostly, the Arch, the flood and most importantly, the Exodus event, yes, there are actual chariot and bone remains at the bottom of the Red Sea as the scriptures lays out, beyond that, which the dirty saudi and egyption governments are trying to cover up and do damage control, are the areas where the golden calf was created and where the 3000 who worshipped the stupid thing were killed and buried as well as the tabernavle and the Thamudic scribings which trully indicate that land belongs to the Israelites, the people, not the commie government,this is why those governemnts are covering up the evidence and no longer allow researchers and divers there.
theexoduscase.com
theexodusconspiracy.com
splitrockresearch.com
see also, The exodus case by Dr. Lennart Moller, since the events off the scriptures are true, and the events described in the scriptures are unfolding as prophecised and that the roman maggots could not find Yahshuas body after the resurection etc., it can only be determined that the scriptures are valid and the garbage you are vomitibg out are fictitious garbledygook invented and commisiooned by the heathen communists.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
God (sic), not another christian conspiracy site, i like conspiracy sites but alex jones has issues…BIG TIME
As if the Bible is real, just think in 2000 years time people will be thinking Lord of the Rings was real and there used to be a ring,come on instelligent people , wake up
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
By the way, i have had chinese zoplicone and it works just fine
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
One of these days, China will have complete control of the medicines then watch the prices go up. Same thing with everything they sell. Once they get complete control, well, they will have complete control and can name their own price.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:19 am
The China Model
November 4th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I assume the meds I am on are made in China also and I worry more they may contain
melamine (sp?) or whatever the heck it is. I hate buying anything from China. My Sears dish washer has Chinese parts and the warranty was almost up when I had to have it repaired. I bought
a warranty extention and now the same part has gone bad again so once more I will just squeak
by before the extended warranty expires. I always had good luck with Sears stuff and they’d back
it up but all that has changed…grrrrrr. Now it oranges from China that contain mold…what’s next?
bottled water?
November 4th, 2008 at 4:46 am
I have been thinking of opening some manufacturing plants here in the U.S., but all the research I have done has shown me that the product will all be more expensive than what U.S. citizens will pay. I would not do it to make a lot of money. I would do it to offer safe quality products, but I can’t do it without making any profit.
In case anyone is curious, I have thought about making kitchen utensils, like spatulas, serving spoons, and other such things. I have also thought about making baby bottles without BPA.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:47 am
China and Pharmaceuticals…Oh God!
November 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
WAKE UP!
War can be won by: Diplomacy(US didn’t do well against Cuba,did well in Soviet Block)
Armed Conflict(Expensive, lives and money)
Trade(US LOST WAR TO CHINA)
Keep China strong, or you will live in third world nation. Yankee, that OL Kentucky rifle will not do well against Chi-Com Knock-off of Russian AK47.
Let us hope that China will not lift ban on number of newborns. I See RED.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
according to the Bible, the last and apparently greatest war will be between the angelic forces of good and the merchants of pharmacology/stargazers. (see Revelation 18:23 which seems to have come from Isaiah 47:12-13)
And I though we were in for something when the US government became more closely aligned with the pharmaceutical industry (see Medicare Part D, January 2006)
Fasten your seat belt, if we make it into the next decade, it is sure to be a rough ride!
From the bewilderness- thanks for coming!
James Mansfield
November 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Let’s hear it for more Melamine poisoning!
November 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
To quote Major Ed Dames, “China is going to eat us”.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Given the recent scandals regarding lead in toys and Melamine in milk, eggs, chocolate and all dairy produce. This looks very scary. The Chinese also feed their animals food pellets containing Melamine. Would anyone seriously feel safe taking any drugs that the Chinese Government produce? They will be cheaper than any of the competition, so they WILL be widely used, probably causing more damage than good. The Chinese are COMPLETLY CAPITALIST now, with all the evils and greed that attends that system. It’s amazing they can call themselves Communists–they are the total opposite! Also, they stopped ALL Welfare of ANY kind in ‘75. Now they’re in the Congo, alongside their Western White friends, making slaves of the African people, paying the equilivent of 20p (in Brit money), per hour, and beating the workers, who are starving already, due to White Western Carpet Bagging, murdering scum. That will all change one day though–hasten the day!
November 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Have you ever considered that if they do it in China they are doing it here in the US as well?
Corportations do not have a conscience. It is all about the “bottom line”.. margins/profits. That is what the shareholders want to see.. even if it kills them.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
“CASUAL OBSERVER”. YOU’RE TOTALLY RIGHT, AND IT JUST REINFORCES THE EVIL OF CAPITALISM. IT IS ALL ABOUT GREED–A VERY BASE EMOTION CATERED TO BY THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM, GROWN INTO “ULTRA-CAPITALISM” UNDER THE NWO. GOD HELP US , IF WE DON’T STOP THEIR GALLOP!
November 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Capitalism in itself is not bad as long as fair competition is part of the factor. Our problem is the “might makes right” mentality and keeping the GVT influence through lawmakers and bureaucracies out of the system.
You cannot have “bought and pair for through a political system” capitalism. It must be with one entity against the other and the final decision made by the free choice of the customer without taxation.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
“GREED” is the human factor of capitalism… Capitalism alone works if leftto a fair means and would keep an economy in check without corportae and political interfereance.
Men should be free to compete against one another in a fair manner for the consumer to bid on their trades.. The failure comes when the consumer trades quality for quantity and expects to get the same results. You pay cheap.. do not act surprised when you get the results.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I think most of Vitamin C sold in this country comes from China.
I worry about what the ingredients really are.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Will a spoonful of monsanto’s GMO Sugarbeet Sugar make the medicine go down in the most surprising way?