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Re:A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests by ikeboy on Sunday September 20, 2015 @05:01PM (#10249105)
The composition is public, and needs to be disclosed when patented. In order to get FDA approval for a generic drug, you need to show that it performs as well as the actual drug (not really, but that's a different issue [0]). In order to do that, you need to have samples of the actual drug.

[0] http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/are-generics-really-the-same-a...

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