China probes 'gutter oil in medicine' claims

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Chinese officials have told pharmaceutical firms to check their suppliers after claims that some have used "gutter oil" to make antibiotics, state-run media report.

Officials are looking into firms that reportedly use the cheaper gutter oil rather than the more expensive soy bean oil in the production process.

Gutter oil is reprocessed kitchen waste dredged from restaurant drains.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19462349

[Scuba]

1. Another job-killing regulation, eh? Damn commies.

[crim son]

2. Yeah duh!

Big corporations can police themselves!

[sarcasmo]

3. Corporations are people too

[Change has come]

4. That's one way of using up gutter oil!

How thrifty!

How much of our medicine comes from China?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Easy to tell.

If there's a voucher for prawn fried rice enclosed in with the medicine then its Chinese.

[On the Road]

6. You Would Think There's Plenty of Demand for Guttern Oil

in making fuel. This seems bizarre even for China.

[XemaSab]

7. China is like the sociopath of the world economy

If using arsenic was one cent per ton cheaper than using phosphorus, by God they'd use it.

[Franker65]

8. Horrible

I'd also like to know how much of our medicine is coming from China. Abuse of oil is nothing new in China, they were using counterfit oil to cook in restaurants. With statistics showing that China will spend more on medicine over the next few years, I really hope they can eliminate this dangerous corner cutting from the production process.