Beijing is seeking to quell public anger over the revelation that a pharmaceutical company distributed hundreds of thousands of faulty vaccines, sparking a nationwide outcry following a series of similar food and drug safety scandals.
Regulators said that Changchun Changsheng Biotech had forged data during the production of some 110,000 rabies vaccines and disclosed that the same company had also sold more than 250,000 “substandard” diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccines to medical centres last year.
Changsheng is China’s largest listed vaccine producer by revenue, with 110m doses of different vaccines sold domestically since 2012.