Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharma Lobby

Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by refurb on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:31AM (#14139663)

This is why we don't want to import drugs from India:

Thakur knew the drugs weren’t good. They had high impurities, degraded easily, and would be useless at best in hot, humid conditions. They would be taken by the world’s poorest patients in sub-Saharan Africa, who had almost no medical infrastructure and no recourse for complaints. The injustice made him livid. Ranbaxy executives didn’t care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. “Who cares?” he said, according to Spreen. “It’s just blacks dying.”[1]

[1]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/17/a_l...

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:35AM (#14139719)

This link has some pretty hair-raisers: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter...

Everyone loves to hate on the FDA until there's a compounding pharmacy that really messes up. A couple of years ago there was one that distributed some medication for injection that had a fungal contaminant, and there were several dozens of fatalities. You'd ask yourself what would happen without adult supervision.

This is the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Center...

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by _jal on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:56AM (#14139876)

And yet somehow the US imports mind-boggling quantities of other things we put in our bodies at safety standards that appear to generate no controversy whatsoever.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by cmdrfred on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:04PM (#14139958)

That's why you don't want to import from India. I do personally for my medications. I'm willing to risk it for drastically lower costs.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by devoply on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:43PM (#14141623)

One company is one company. There is no reason to think that India can not produce drugs up to par with the right financial and oversight incentive.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by refurb on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:26PM (#14144701)

Take a look at home many Indian drug manufacturers have had import bans slapped on them by the FDA. It isn't just one company.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by lenkite on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:09PM (#14148799)

There are 74 US FDA-approved manufacturing facilities in India, more than in any other country outside the U.S. (This I believe has increased further over the last year)

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by devoply on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:16AM (#14145603)

The point being there are or is at least one Indian drug company that exports to the that is not been censured by the FDA.

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