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Publication type: news

China warns pharmaceutical makers over ads exaggerating positive effects
Associated Press 2007 Nov 7
http://www.cnbc.com/id/21672696/for/cnbc


Full text:

BEIJING – Chinese drug regulators threatened Wednesday to pull the licenses of 16 pharmaceutical companies that allegedly ran advertisements exaggerating the benefits of their products.

The State Food and Drug Administration said the ads contained “a large amount of unscientific assertion and pledges on the products’ benefits and effects,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Customers have been misled and laws broken, Xinhua cited the administration as saying in a statement.

Among the alleged exaggerations was a claim by Tonghua Shenlong Pharmaceutical Co. that its Naoxintong medication could “produce an instant effect on a patient who has suffered heart disease for seven or eight years,” Xinhua said.

The administration has ordered its local branches to ensure the companies remove the offending ads, it said.

China has sought to crack down on violations by medication-producing companies amid a sweeping campaign to boost product quality. The step follows revelations of chemical-tainted, impure or spoiled products ranging from toys to toothpaste that have dealt a serious blow to the reputation of Chinese exports.

China is raising quality requirements for licensing new medicines, and has ordered a review of 170,000 drug production licenses granted during the tenure of a former SFDA director who was executed in July on charges that he took bribes to approve untested medications.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909