Veteran drug safety experts have
urged the public not to panic over chromium-contaminated drug capsules illegall
made from industrial gelatin.
So far no cases of adverse
reactions have been reported in the country and excessive levels of chromium
detected in the capsules wouldn’t
necessarily lead to poisoning, said Sun Zhongshi, an expert with the National Rational Drug Use Monitoring
System under the Ministry of Health.
On April 15, China’s top drug
watchdog issued an emergency notice suspending the sale and consumption of a
list of capsules with reported chromium
contamination.
They involve 13 kinds of drugs,
including for the treatment of cold, stomatc problems and infections,
manufactured by nine domestic pharmaceutical companies, including large,
well-known ones like Xiuzheng Pharmaceutical Group in Jilin province.
On April 16,CCTV revealed in an
investigative program that several commonly used medicines were packed into
capsules made from industrial gelatin, which contains a much higher degree of chromium than edible
gelatin.
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