• The drug thinner Heparin had production halted by Baxter, which has 50% of the market share
  
• FDA may only inspect around 7% of foreign drug-making facilities in a given year.
• FDA has not inspected the plant ever, and it has been making the drug ingredient for Baxter for 20 years.
• China is now the world's largest producer of active pharmaceutical ingredient
• The Chinese plant may not be the reason for the 4 deaths.
• This is scary - FDA "cannot provide the exact number of foreign establishments that have never been inspected."

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