Re: Alarming Statistic on Source of Prescription Drugs

In message <5ee67e29-a9ac-4f0b-a035-ca5a2e109d52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, PeterB wrote:

Alarming Statistic on Source of Prescription Drugs in the U.S.

80% of all drugs prescribed in the U.S. are manufactured in other countries
More than 560 Chinese facilities produce prescription drugs for the U.S. market
FDA inspected less than 3% of these off-shore prescription drug facilities last year

Source: "Tainted Drugs Put Focus on the F.D.A." Gardiner Harris, The
New York Times, 3/17/08

Recommended reading:
Alternative Cures that Really Work, by Ronald Hoffman MD & Barry Fox
Ph.D.

And how does the oversight and quality assurance for the
materials referenced compare to that for regulated
pharmaceuticals?

Offhand, I'm not seeing that the bad news on sloppy Chinese
regulation and inspection of heparin and the like does
anything to improve the picture on Chinese products that
don't even pretend to be regulated or inspected.

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