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In 1996 overleden 60 kinderen op Haïti door met antivries (etheenglycol) vervuilde glycerine die door het Nederlandse bedrijf "Vos" uit Alphen aan den Rijn was geleverd. De glycerine was afkomstig uit China en werd in Haïti verwerkt in hoestdrank. Het bedrijf wist dat de glycerine ongeschikt was voor menselijke consumptie. De leiding van het bedrijf werd niet strafrechtelijk vervolgd, maar er volgde een schikking met het Openbaar Ministerie van € 200.000.[1] Op 6 maart 2004 besloot het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken om een half miljoen euro aan de nabestaanden van de overleden kinderen te doneren. Zij kregen gedurende twee jaar een bedrag van 200 euro per maand. Filmmaker Leo de Boer interviewt betrokkenen. After a drug ingredient from China killed dozens of Haitian children a decade ago, a senior American health official sent a cable to her investigators: find out who made the poisonous ingredient and why a state-owned company in China exported it as safe, pharmaceutical-grade glycerin. The Chinese were of little help. Requests to find the manufacturer were ignored. Business records were withheld or destroyed. The Americans had reason for alarm. "The U.S. imports a lot of Chinese glycerin and it is used in ingested products such as toothpaste," Mary K. Pendergast, then deputy commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, wrote on Oct. 27, 1997. Learning how diethylene glycol, a syrupy poison used in some antifreeze, ended up in Haitian fever medicine might "prevent this tragedy from happening again," she wrote. Labeled pharmaceutical-grade glycerin, the toxic syrup was mixed into thousands of bottles of fever medicine. For months, parents gave it to children, then watched them die, in agony, from kidney failure. No one suspected the medicine until much later. Officially, at least 88 children died, nearly half under the age of 2. But those 88 were only the ones doctors remembered or for whom hospital records could be found. The F.D.A. traced the poison to a German broker, Chemical Trading and Consulting, but the company's records were not much help. "They cannot trace glycerine lots to their manufacturer," David Pulham, an F.D.A. investigator, wrote on June 30, 1996. Chemical Trading had arranged for a Dutch company, Vos B.V., to sell 72 barrels of the suspect syrup to Haiti, records show. The agency dispatched an investigator, Ann deMarco, who made an unsettling discovery: sitting in Vos's warehouse near Rotterdam were 66 more barrels labeled glycerin, all containing lethal concentrations of diethylene glycol. English text adapted from source on www.haitianalysis.com www.pvhfilm.nl

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Uploaded: February 11th, 2008 @ 9:26 am
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