News Journal

Supply chain of contaminated heparin getting investigated

The U.S. investigating team is trying to get the clue into the chain of supplies that manufacture the drug heparin. The blood thinning drug heparin is manufactured by the company Baxter Healthcare Corp. and it has reported to have resulted in deaths of patients and causing many other problems to the patients who took it.

The drug heparin uses an ingredient that comes from the intestine of pig that are reared in China and the investigating team need the help of Chinese counterpart to track the reason behind the contamination in the drug.