Dr. Lowe writes:
A report in the Chinese newspaper Economic Information Daily says that the Chinese SFDA (State Food and Drug Administration) has been conducting a review of Chinese clinical trial practices, and after reviewing 1,622 trials has found that most of them are seriously flawed. And by "seriously flawed", they mean "largely faked". The story says that "More than 80 percent of applications for mass production of new drugs have been canceled in the light of the findings, with officials warning that further evidence malpractice could still emerge in the scandal."
Radio Free Asia writes:
According to the SFDA report, much of the data gathered during clinical trials were incomplete, failed to meet analysis requirements or were untraceable, the paper cited a source in the agency as saying.
It said some companies were suspected of deliberately hiding or deleting records of adverse effects, and tampering with data that did not meet expectations.
[...] Public safety problems in China aren't limited to the pharmaceutical industry and the figure of 80 percent is unlikely to surprise many in a country where citizens routinely engage in the bulk-buying of overseas-made goods like infant formula powder.
Guangdong-based rights activist Mai Ke said there is an all-pervasive culture of fakery across all products made in the country.
"It's not just the medicines," Mai said. "In China, everything is fake, and if there's a profit in pharmaceuticals, then someone's going to fake them too."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 07 2016, @07:10PM
Hmmm - mebbe I have something to learn. Like, how common is it to lose tolerance for lactose after infancy? And, how soon after infancy? In my own (limited) experience, it's a small percentage of people who can't drink milk. My family and aquantances are mostly European, with Black and Native American mixed in - I really don't know a lot of Asians. Of course, not everyone talks about their diet all the time, but very few people make an issue of eating/drinking dairy products. At a guess, maybe 5% of the people I know have some intolerance for dairy products. I'm just guessing - could be more, and they've just never made an issue of it.
I'm headed to bed right now, but maybe I'll remember to do some googling on the subject later. . .
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday October 09 2016, @03:02AM
To quote wiki, "The frequency of lactose intolerance ranges from 5% in Northern European to more than 90% in some African and Asian countries." after weaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance [wikipedia.org]
Most people can still drink a cup of milk without particularly bad affects and may not even realize that they're lactose intolerant, just taking it for granted that being gassy and such is normal. I'm European and never liked milk and get bubbly guts and the runs if I drink too much, my wife is Native American and really reacts bad to milk. My son has it even worse though he may be in that small minority that are actually allergic to milk.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 09 2016, @09:01AM
Yeah, I finally did the Google thing, and was surprised. Race is a factor. I thought OP was just being a wise-ass.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday October 09 2016, @07:12PM
Sure, we feed lactose to the nisy mustard machines, but the bad effects are just part of the package. Those same negative effects are highly undesirable in adulthood.
As a species, there's no "lactose intolerance" - that's the default, it's the minority who are lactose tolerant, most of them of European descent.
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