KFDA orders death warnings

On August 14, the government instructed drug makers to attach a stricter warning about the risk of death in patients when labeling recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin alfa), produced using a mammalian cell line (Chinese hamster ovary cells).

Manufacturers of 14 epoetin alfa preparations such as Eporon and Epokaine will be obliged to attach warnings that the use of such epoetin alfa pr...