Vaccine company doctored records

A pharmaceutical company that produced a faulty rabies vaccine had fabricated records to cover up illegal production methods, a special investigation team sent by the State Council discovered.

Changchun Changsheng Bio-tech Co, which is linked to the recent scandal over a rabies vaccine designed for human use, had mixed several batches of vaccine fluid and purified them in order to reduce costs, Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday.

Some of the vaccine liquid used in production was past its shelf life. The company was found to have fabricated the liquid's expiration date and conducted an experiment on mice with the raw liquid - a procedure that should be done on the final products.