Vaccine scandals call for stricter control and management

Barely five months after it was revealed a key manufacturer had fabricated records regarding rabies vaccines, we heard solemn vows of a nationwide clean-up and promises that similar lapses would not be repeated.

That scandal accelerated the drafting of a law to establish a strict regulatory system covering the research, development, production, distribution and use of vaccines.

If that particular case highlighted the public's distrust of the way vaccines are made and supplied in our country, what has happened in Jinhu county, Jiangsu province, reveals stunning failures in how vaccines are being administered and how urgent it is the proposed law is introduced to impose the "strictest" regulations on the production and use of vaccines.