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BEIJING (AP) - Businesses in Panama, not China were "mainly responsible" for passing off an industrial chemical as a medical ingredient leading to the deaths of at least 51 people, a senior official in China's product-inspection agency said Thursday.
Wei Chuanzhong, vice minister of the Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said Chinese companies sold the industrial solvent called 'TD glycerin', to Spanish companies who then sold it to Panamanian companies. The product was then used to make cough syrup and other medicine.
"The Panamanian business people are mainly responsible because they changed the scope of use and shelf-life of this product," Wei said.
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