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Re:Australia pulls some Nurofen products over misleading claims by gjm11 on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:18AM (#10730592)
The big company might well have better quality control (though, depending on the regulatory environment, you may have very good grounds to believe that everyone's quality control is good enough) -- but it seems unlikely that the same big company has better quality control for one product than for another identical product in different packaging.

But not impossible. You could imagine that they do some kind of tests on their pills, and put the "better" batches in the fancier packaging with the higher prices. I doubt it, though. (Though I bet such things do happen in other less tightly regulated markets.)

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Re:Australia pulls some Nurofen products over misleading claims by TeMPOraL on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:46AM (#10730678)
One area where it happens is electrical components; for instance, if you buy a bunch of 10kΩ ±5% reistors and measure their actual resistance, you should find a nice distribution with a big hole around exactly 10kΩ; those resistors were taken from the batch and sold as ±1% (or better) tolerance. But it shouldn't happen with drugs, I doubt there are "grades" of acceptable quality.
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