Chi­nese phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal man­u­fac­tur­er in spot­light af­ter weld­ing ac­ci­dent kills 10

An ac­tive phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­gre­di­ent man­u­fac­tur­er in Chi­na has come un­der scruti­ny for the lat­est dead­ly in­dus­tri­al ac­ci­dent af­ter an ex­plo­sive ac­ci­dent at its plant killed 10 work­ers.

Qilu Tian­he Huishi Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, op­er­at­ing in Shan­dong province on the east coast of Chi­na, ex­ports gener­ic drugs like amikacin and tazobac­tam in bulk to Eu­rope, North and South Amer­i­ca and the Mid­dle East. Reg­u­la­tors at the Na­tion­al Med­i­c­i­nal Prod­ucts Ad­min­is­tra­tion have pre­vi­ous­ly named the com­pa­ny for fail­ing qual­i­ty in­spec­tions.

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