Health officials refute vaccine allegations

• Source: Global Times
• [01:38 March 18 2010]
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According to Chen, Tian Jianguo, who was appointed as the head of the center's biological products distribution office in 2005, responsible for the supply and management of vaccines for 35 million people.

"Tian asked his staff to move the boxes of vaccines to a new building that hadn't been put into use at the time… They opened the boxes and put the vaccines on the ground, accumulating like a hill," said Wei Junli, a worker, the report said.

"The vaccines exposed to high temperatures for a long time should have been abandoned, otherwise they are killers," Chen said.

"These vaccines were not recalled until the end of 2008," he added.

The local health authority told media Wednesday that the report was basically "untrue" and that the nation's health authorities conduct stringent monitoring on vaccine injections.