China State Food and Drug Administration is investigating the case of recalled Baxter's heparin and checking pharmaceutical ingredients used in the drug.

With Chinese manufacturers poised to increase exports of drug ingredients and perhaps even begin shipping finished drug products to the United States, an article http://pubs.acs.org/cen/business/85/8525bus1.html in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS's weekly newsmagazine, questions allegations that foreign-made ingredients often are manufactured in factories that have never been inspected by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).