Fury as Changsheng Biotech slammed by Chinese officials

23 July 2018

Changsheng Biotechnology (China: 002680) is the subject of an ongoing controversy this week, after an inspection in mid-July found the company had fabricated production and inspection documents related to the production of 250,000 faulty rabies vaccines.

On July 15, the Chinese State Drug Administration announced that Changsheng Biotechnology had falsified its documentation and subsequently issued a recall of all the company's rabies vaccinations, and issued the company with a fine of 3.4 million yen ($500,000).

The Changsheng crisis was compounded when the company said in a statement that it was facing punishment for the production of "substandard" DPT vaccines to treat diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis.

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