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Clamp Down on Drug Outsourcing?

Posted July 06, 2008 8:18 AM

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a probe into outsourcing of pharmaceutical production, as well as ways to make drugmakers accountable for outsourced products that fail to meet quality standards. Following instances of contaminated heparin products from abroad, one FDA official charged during Congressional testimony that American drug companies are outsourcing operations to take advantage of weak drug safety standards abroad. Are new regulations really needed?

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Re: Clamp Down on Drug Outsourcing?

07/11/2008 1:58 AM

Anything made elsewhere and sold here should meet our standards. But not meeting standards is more profitable. They don't need to be fined, just seize and destroy substandard products or refuse to let those products in. Enforce existing laws.

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