China to track poorly stored vaccines sold illegally

BEIJING (AP) — China's Food and Drug Administration has ordered local governments to track the whereabouts of poorly refrigerated and probably ineffective vaccines after police detained a woman thought to have sold nearly $100 million worth of the suspect products nationwide.

Police told state media that the suspect, identified by her last name Pang, had earlier been convicted of illegally selling vaccines in 2009 and sentenced to three years in prison.

Past scandals have involved phony infant formula discovered to be nothing but starch and bogus vaccines containing only saline solution.