Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:32:04 PM
This blog post is inspired by Phyllis Schlafly's 8/13/07 column entitled "Americans Need China-Free Food. The link is as follows:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2007/08/14/americans_need_china-free_food
Look at the tags in any piece of apparel you're wearing right now. Odds are that at least one is from China.
That is not as worrisome, however, as the idea that prescription drugs are manufactured in China.
How much, and by whom? Now there's a question for the sages.
Next question: who at the FDA inspects every little bottle and vial of prescription medication that reaches our shores from China? Who?
We already know that the FDA's resources are stretched to the limit. Therefore, we cannot expect the FDA to assure us -- I mean really, really assure us -- that drugs from China are safe.
The Federal government makes a big case out of the fact that there is no other country with safer drugs than the United States. And that, my friend, is why there is absolutely, positively no "free trade" when it applies to an individual U.S. consumer.
While it is true (per one of my U.S. Senators) that if an individual purchases drugs for his personal use from a foreign country, Customs will not hold it up. However, the possibility hangs over one's head.
I have drugs purchased four miles from home that are jet-setters of the first water: they arrive from Ireland, England, Canada, and Germany, to name a few.
Who inspects these drugs? Who? Aren't they drugs "from foreign countries"?
There is nobody in the world who can assure me that my drugs are safe. Certainly not the FDA.
Drugs are beginning to be manufactured by the millions in China. Do you want some? Not me. But who, pray tell, will advise me about this matter, particularly if the drug has been repackaged by the local pharmacy or by a Prescription Drug Plan mail-order company?
Would you rather have drugs manufactured in Canada or in China?
This is part I. The press of other matters calls me away from this subject which is one about which I care passionately.
There will be a Part II. This subject needs press.