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Importing Medicine: Ill-Advised?

China's booming pharmaceutical industry has doubled exports to the United States in the past five years, undercutting competitors and making American consumers reliant on the safety of Chinese factories and ...

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Don Mei
Groton, CT
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Dec 10, 2007
 
This is truly frightening.

So let me get this right ... If I go to walmart to buy a DVD player, and it is made in china, it is required to be marked as such.

But yet, the blood pressure medication that is keeping me alive does not need to be flagged as made in china.

Something is terribly wrong here.
Get Real
Granby, CT
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Dec 10, 2007
 
Something is more than terribly wrong.
I want to know where meds come from...with the previous reports that some meds from Asia look the same as others but have inactive ingredients only, then how the 'H' are any of us supposed to know what we're ingesting.
This fair trade crap has to stop...for our own sakes. I'm tired of products no longer being made here, where we have higher standards for their production.
Stricter standards are sorely needed.
George
Bethlehem, PA
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Dec 10, 2007
 
Walmart is like a "Black Hole" sucking businesses into their way of doing things or else!

They began this "made in China" syndrome and the ill effects we're seeing now is only the tip of the iceberg.

Now pharma companies are announcing layoffs and plans to outsource manufaturing offshore. The financial analysts applaud these decisions as cutting out the fat. Well with the fat don't be surprised that the safegaurds are cut out too.
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