{"id":3343,"date":"2018-10-17T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/chinese-firm-fined-1-3bn-for-illegal-production-of-rabies-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:22:15","slug":"chinese-firm-fined-1-3bn-for-illegal-production-of-rabies-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/chinese-firm-fined-1-3bn-for-illegal-production-of-rabies-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm fined $1.3bn for illegal production of rabies vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Chinese vaccination firm has been fined $1.3bn (\u00a3988m) after it was found to have illegally produced the human rabies vaccine.<\/p>\n

Changchun Changsheng had blended different batches of vaccine fluid<\/a> and used expired fluid to produce some of the batches, according to state news agency Xinhua.<\/p>\n

The company also falsified production data for the vaccine.<\/p>\n

This is not the first major vaccine scandal to hit China. <\/p>\n

Changchun Changsheng’s pharmaceutical production licence has also been revoked and its illegally produced vaccines have been confiscated. <\/p>\n

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Some of the company’s executives may also face criminal charges.<\/p>\n

“This is the most stringent administrative penalty on record,”<\/a> an official at the China Food and Drug Administration told financial news website Caixin.<\/p>\n

“The company must be held responsible for its intentional fraud.”<\/p>\n

‘What kind of society am I living in?’<\/h2>\n

Earlier in July, it was revealed that Changchun Changsheng had falsified production data for its rabies vaccine.<\/a><\/p>\n

The company was then ordered to halt production and recall its vaccines.<\/p>\n

There was then no evidence of harm from the vaccine, but the scandal sparked a huge outcry in China, and thousands took to social media in anger.<\/p>\n

“Thousands of mothers around the country are worried. Over 200,000 children could be affected. “What kind of society am I living in?” asked one person on the micro-blogging platform Weibo.<\/p>\n

The incident also led to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang ordering a crackdown on the vaccine industry, saying the incident had “crossed a moral line”.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time substandard vaccines have been produced in China.<\/p>\n

In 2016, an illegal vaccine ring which involved hundreds of people was uncovered.<\/p>\n

Some $88m worth of vaccines were found to be inadequately refrigerated and were not transported in approved conditions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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