Fake medicine firm fined, banned after 11 deaths
A pharmaceutical company that made a drug which killed 11 people in Guangdong Province has been fined 19 million yuan (US$2.3 million) by a drug watchdog.
The production licence of the Qiqihar No 2 Pharmaceutical Company, based in Northeast China, has also been revoked by the Heilongjiang provincial food and drug administration and the sale of the firm's drugs banned.
The State Food and Drug Administration has ordered all products which have already been sold to be traced and destroyed.
By Guo Nei
01 July 2006