Heparin Debaucle and the FDA

When there is a drug or food blunder in another country, that country reacts and immediately recalls the offensive product. The same cannot be said about the FDA and the United States. The FDA doesn't have the power to do so but can only recommend a recall or black box warning label which usually takes months to implement.

In the meantime more people are seriously and fatally affected.

Like in the case of the blood thinner heparin -- In the Heparin debacle, the FDA reported that since the end of 2007, it received over 700 reports of adverse side effects associated with Baxter’s multiple-dose injectable Heparin; 40 percent of these reports were deemed serious.
There were inadequate FDA inspections of overseeing the active ingredients obtained from unregulated factories in China.

In the meantime, the FDA executives are giving themselves huge pay raises while there is no money in the budget to effectively monitor and investigate imports from other countries or hire more employees.