FDA Crackdowns

The government is getting Tough with the pharmaceutical companies -

"Companies that send in fake medicine samples for approvals will be fined as much as 30,000 yuan ($3,967) and face a three- year ban from drug tests, said Wu Zhen, deputy head of the State Food and Drug Administration's supervision department, in a Webcast today on the agency's Web site."

Well, maybe not Tough. How about a little jail time?

Then we have some deep and profound thoughts from Sidney Wolfe, the director of health research at something called the Public Citizen consumer group in Washington:

"One of the downsides of globalization is that you have countries race to the bottom."

I guess there are always two ways of looking at things. I would say that China was already at the bottom. Globalization just keeps it from digging.