Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Monday, March 10, 2008 4:44:10 PM
You probably are by now aware of a well-known drug's latest problems. It was reported on Fox News earlier today.
Well, it seems that it has become known that 80 percent of the drug originates in China. It's manufactured in the U.S., as I understand it, but only 20 percent of it is made of components from the U.S. or some other country.
Is it difficult to understand why it is imperative that Americans demand to be informed of the origins of every component of every drug sold in the U.S., whether manufactured in the U.S. or not?
Is it difficult to understand why U.S. companies manufacturing drugs anywhere in the world would purchase components of drugs from China? The reason, of course, is that they want to save a buck or two. Or a million. Or a billion. What do they care if a few people get sick from using the drugs they make? What do they care if a few people die from using the drugs they make? After all, they have lawyers, and they have good lawyers. These lawyers can dream up acceptable settlements for any of the victims or victims' families brave enough to sue them.
In January the FDA or HHS (Department of Health & Human Services) entered into a "Partnership" agreement with China bearing on drug safety. Why does anyone suppose that the FDA or HHS has any interest in entering into any kind of "Partnership" agreement with China, of all the countries in the world? Is this designed to lull unsuspecting, unobservant and complacent Americans into a fairy-tale belief that this "Partnership" agreement with China is actually going to make U.S. drugs safer?
The drug industry has already made billions of dollars from the Medicare Prescription Drug Plans. Billions of dollars is not enough for the drug industry. They want more, more, more, more. And they seem to be getting it. Via substandard, possibly dangerous, inferior and unacceptable ingredients in drugs flooding the shelves of retail drugstores across America.
As stated in my recent blog entry on this subject, these companies should begin to fold like deck chairs.
CAVEAT VENDITOR.