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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:22:34 PM   | Abstract: | Congressional hearings this week reveal the theory that the contamination that killed 81 heparin recipients was a deliberate act of sabotage. |
The ongoing saga of heparin contamination, which claimed the lives of 81 people and caused health complications for many others, took an ominous turn this week as word came of a deliberate effort to poison the blood-thinning medication.
As loved ones of the victims and officials from heparin's maker Baxter International testified before Congress this week, the focus shifted from possible cost-cutting shortcuts by the Chinese maker of heparin's ingredients to the more sinister possibility that the addition of the deadly contaminants was a malicious act.
A New York Times article on the hearing quotes David G. Strunce, CEO of Scientific Protein Laboratories, a partner company that supplied heparin material to Baxter International, as saying the product tainting was "an insidious act" that "seems to us an intentional act upstream in the supply chain."
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