The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Bioresearch Monitoring Inspectorate (OBMI) Foreign Inspection Cadre has determined that CCIC Huatongwei International Inspection (Suzhou) Co., created by the communist dictatorship in China in 1997, has been coping the results of other studies and falsified data, and other activities and procedures in defiance of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP).
All study data from all studies conducted at this testing facility will be rejected.
Environmental activists have long been critical of the cosmetics industry. It turns out that activists were right, they were just looking at the US instead of countries where stickers for organic food are just thrown on conventional food. They avoided comment on countries that have been funding them using offshore donor-advised funds like Tides, while geopolitical competitors have exploited lax enforcement in the past.
Examples were that FDA found that study records for nine Guinea Pig Maximization Test studies related to cosmetics testing conducted by four different study directors were photocopied and reused.
That doesn't mean the products are unsafe, don't throw out everything you got with a Made In China label, but American cosmetics are the safest in the world in part due to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Previous administrations may have told agencies not to act on suspicions they had about data integrity in China.
GPMT isn't the extent of it. FDA listed seven serious violations, so we have to hope other Chinese government labs are getting new scrutiny. There is no hope for organic food, though. When he ordered USDA to create an official designation for his environmental donors, they were specifically told to exempt that market segment from the surprise spot inspections conventional farmers face.
