BEIJING — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines.

China's vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world's poor and provide major new competition for the big Western pharmaceutical companies.

However, it may take some time before some parts of the world are ready to embrace Chinese products when safety is as sensitive an issue as it is with vaccines — especially given the food, drug and other scandals the country has seen.

Still, China's entry into this market will be a "game changer," said Nina Schwalbe, head of policy at the GAVI Alliance, which buys vaccines for 50 million children a year worldwide.

Not a good track record: China's food and drug safety record in recent years hardly inspires confidence: in 2007, Chinese cough syrup killed 93 people in Central America; one year later, contaminated blood thinner led to dozens of deaths in the United States while melamine tainted milk powder poisoned hundreds of thousands of Chinese babies and killed six.

they have sophisticated labs with all the right
health procedures and safety measures at
some facilities ....but not all

and i totally question the whole approach

if all the find a new vaccine research money
or even a portion of it.....

went into a Boost our immune system technology
instead... using chlorella and spirulina algae
basically solent green wafers also known as
MANA from heaven

we'd be much better off... i say

BEIJING — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines.

China's vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world's poor and provide major new competition for the big Western pharmaceutical companies.

However, it may take some time before some parts of the world are ready to embrace Chinese products when safety is as sensitive an issue as it is with vaccines — especially given the food, drug and other scandals the country has seen.

Still, China's entry into this market will be a "game changer," said Nina Schwalbe, head of policy at the GAVI Alliance, which buys vaccines for 50 million children a year worldwide.

Not a good track record: China's food and drug safety record in recent years hardly inspires confidence: in 2007, Chinese cough syrup killed 93 people in Central America; one year later, contaminated blood thinner led to dozens of deaths in the United States while melamine tainted milk powder poisoned hundreds of thousands of Chinese babies and killed six.


NYPRO in Clinton has FDA approved quality control.robotics for making medical equipment in Clinton. In their China Factories, the robots are replaced with 8-12 people doing quality control.
For their blood kits, if there is a blemish found in the US it is rejected, in China they have the QC people use a cotton swab and some grit to sand it.

I'm looking forward to this. Of course the US guvmint will approve their use in the USA as a cost saving measure for us pooh folks paying the same cost as last year for the stuff. Who's making the money?