List of medicine contamination incidents

The following list encompasses notable medicine contamination incidents.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Medicine: Post-Mortem". Time magazine. December 20, 1937. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758704,00.html. Retrieved 2009-07-19. "Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users" 
  2. ^ "Wallace Reveals How Federal Agents Traced Elixir to Halt Fatalities". New York Times. November 26, 1937. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C15F93B59177A93C4AB178AD95F438385F9. Retrieved 2009-07-20. "A graphic story of a race against death from "elixir sulfanilamide," carried on by the Food and Drug Administration in fifteen States from Virginia to California, a race not won until ninety-three persons had died after taking the lethal dose, was told by Secretary Wallace today in a report responding to Senate and House resolutions." 
  3. ^ Rachael Bell. "The Tylenol Terrorist". TruTV Crime Library. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/tylenol_murders/index.html. 
  4. ^ Bogdanich, W.; McLean, R. "Poisoned Toothpaste in Panama Is Believed to Be From China", New York Times, May 19, 2007.
  5. ^ "China investigating toothpaste containing potentially deadly chemical". International Herald Tribune. 2007-05-22. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/22/asia/AS-GEN-China-Tainted-Toothpaste.php. Retrieved 2007-05-22. 
  6. ^ "U.S. checking all toothpaste imports from China". CNN. 2007-05-23. Archived from the original on 2007-05-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20070526145153/http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/23/china.toothpaste.reut/index.html. Retrieved 2007-05-23. 
  7. ^ China sentencia a muerte al exjefe de control de fármacos. (China sentences to death former drug control chief) La Nación, pp. 1 & 4. (May 30th 2007)
  8. ^ US 'Self-contradictory' over Toothpaste Scandal, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Negara Brunel Darussalam
  9. ^ An Epidemiological Study on the Health Effects of Population Using the Toothpaste with Diethylene Glycol, Journal of Labour Medicine (China), vol.17, p 168-170, (2000)
  10. ^ 7online.com: Toothpaste recall expands 6/18/07
  11. ^ Toothpaste labeled Colgate recalled - More health news - MSNBC.com
  12. ^ "Toxin found in fake UK toothpaste". BBC News. 2007-07-12. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/6896182.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-08. 
  13. ^ Walt Bogdanich (May 6, 2007). "From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/americas/06poison.html?ei=5090&en=c771f1d18e2ef8f4&ex=1336104000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-03-20. "The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in some antifreeze." 
  14. ^ Walt Bogdanich (March 20, 2008). "Heparin Find May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/health/20heparin.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1206032448-8vAmKaxtXzpFTH3rUaNgBg. Retrieved 2008-03-20. "Federal drug regulators, in announcing Wednesday that the mystery contaminant in heparin was an inexpensive, unapproved ingredient altered to mimic the real thing, moved closer to concluding that Americans might be the latest victims of lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting." 
  15. ^ Harris Gardiner (April 22, 2008). "U.S. Identifies Tainted Heparin in 11 Countries". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/health/policy/22fda.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11. "A contaminated blood thinner from China has been found in drug supplies in 11 countries, and federal officials said Monday they had discovered a clear link between the contaminant and severe reactions now associated with 81 deaths in the United States." 
  16. ^ News.yahoo.com Nigeria child deaths from tainted syrup rise to 84