THE letter from Farid W. Husain, the Health Department’s Director-General of Medical Services, helped to trigger the debate on IVs. The letter clearly asked hospitals to give special attention regarding the IVs sterilized in the 15-minute, 121 degrees overkill method.

Indeed, Farid did not mention any brands, but anyone can figure out that the product using the overkill method could only be produced by Sanbe. Other plants use the bioburden m