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BEIJING (AP) — China has suspended the sale and use of an herbal injection used to treat heart disease after six people suffered adverse reactions, including three who died.The State Food and Drug Administration said in a notice posted late Wednesday that the six suffered "serious ill effects" after being injected with an extract from an herb called Ciwujia produced by Wandashan Pharmaceutical.

The SFDA isolated two problematic batches and urged immediate nationwide reporting of any adverse effects. The suspension comes as China is trying to reassure consumers amid a widespread tainted milk scandal, the latest to mar the country's already troubled product safety record.

A man who answered the telephone at Wandashan's marketing department in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang in China's northeast, said the company had stopped selling the herbal injection and had sent the two batches to the SFDA for testing.

The man, who would give only his surname, L...

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