Going from Lipitor to generic dangerous?

From: me@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:49:57 -0500

heard somewhere that studies may show that switching
form Lipitor (branded statins) to generic one such as
simvastatin could be dangerous.

any truth to this?
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