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Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs by 627467 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:21AM (#36504886)
> Plants in India undercut everyone in price and drove them out of the market by making a substandard and dangerous version of the drug violating basic safety standards

Someone is buying those "substandard" products or it wouldn't be driving competitors out of business. Did the FDA suddenly realized something the rest of the Regulatory bodies didn't?

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Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs by light_hue_1 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:55AM (#36507365)
Yeah, we are buying these substandard and dangerous products and putting them in our bodies.

They ship generic drugs to the US. The FDA is the regulator. And their regulatory system is terrible. They run extremely infrequent checks, they give months of notice before they do so, and they still manage to find horrific safety violations.

Instead of constant checks that would find small things, they discover a mess every time. This time they found everything you could possibly imagine: incorrect drugs, impure drugs, falsified tests, engineers overriding safety software when it reported impurities, incorrect amounts with falsified reports, etc.

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