Generic drugs - manufactured with lax quality checks - are poisoning us would be a more apt title. I work in the pharma industry (biologicals) and I agree that there is a lot of "funny business" going on at multiple levels in the pharma industry all over the world.

Painting western companies as victims and to simply blame it on overseas companies would be a gross oversimplification. Whenever you order material from any supplier or vendor it is YOUR responsibility to conduct a vendor audit, its YOUR responsibility to perform incoming materials testing, etc, etc. You don't just simply take what a supplier gives you and inject it into a live human. As you go towards filing an IND, you have to do tox studies, stability studies, pre-clinical, clinical studies, and on and on.

I know of several cases where big name US pharma companies banned their employees from conducting certain tests because if the results came out less than flattering they might have to show those to the FDA, and they might end up having to delay or cancel the product.