hina has had more than its share of embarrassing — and in some cases, deadly — incidents of drug quality. In January this year, two people died and nine were hospitalized after using counterfeit diabetes drugs in Xinjiang province. In 2007 and early 2008, a dangerous chemical was intentionally added to heparin, the widely used blood thinner, to fool quality tests. The allergic reactions caused by the chemical were deemed responsible for at least 95 U.S. deaths. In March of this year, the United Kingdom seized around $745,000 of counterfeit pharmaceuticals that originated in China, authorities said.