Heparin Recall - Cruel Reality!

In January, 2008, there was a crucial situation in the medical world when FDA announced the heparin recall. The drug like heparin which is a life saving drug was found defective because of the fake ingredients which were used during the manufacture.

Heparin is a blood thinner which is used for the patients who are in critical situation to prevent the formation of blood clot. It is mostly used in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis by keeping existing blood clots from getting larger and to prevent the new ones from forming. And it is also used to clear out catheter and intravenous lines.

There have been many cases of blood infection and death reported nationwide. And the symptoms of the use of defective drug can be life threatening. That is the reason which made FDA announced heparin recall with immediate effects. It included the contaminated Sierra Pre Filled Syringes and it was also advised to quarantine the syringes and return to the distributor.

As FDA found that the manufacturer was not compliant with the quality system regulation and had failed to take the adequate care while sterilisation of the pre filled syringes. Apart from that, the manufacturing unit in China was not inspected by FDA and caught using the fake and poor quality ingredients to form heparin.

This carelessness and greed to make high profits led to the life of thousands of innocent Americans. And most of the deaths caused by the heparin were not even investigate as the patients were already in the critical condition.

Now the question arises that whom to blame for this blunder and what kind of strong measures should be taken to avoid this in future. This kind of blunders in the pharmaceutical industry may recreate the situation as the heparin recall. To avoid it in future FDA should take some strong measures to prevent the innocent people from these death defining drugs.

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