Yet Another Reason to Avoid Drugs
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutAnd no, I don't mean the illegal, recreational ones. I mean the medically approved kind, whether OTC or prescribed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02fda-t.html?pagewanted=1
The (long) article concludes with:
"Some lawmakers have gone as far as to suggest a ban on all drugs made with Chinese ingredients, but China has become such a crucial supplier that a ban would lead to the collapse of the U.S. health care system. And our dependence is only growing: when PricewaterhouseCoopers cited the best place for pharmaceutical outsourcing in the world in an October report to drug companies, its pick was China."
But it _started_ with a description of how nearly all our generic acetaminophen and aspirin are coming from China.
Creepy. Hard to imagine how we are going to be reading about a really big scandal a la the melamine pet food/melamin in formula/bad heparin/etc. Makes you really think twice about the infant Tylenol.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02fda-t.html?pagewanted=1
The (long) article concludes with:
"Some lawmakers have gone as far as to suggest a ban on all drugs made with Chinese ingredients, but China has become such a crucial supplier that a ban would lead to the collapse of the U.S. health care system. And our dependence is only growing: when PricewaterhouseCoopers cited the best place for pharmaceutical outsourcing in the world in an October report to drug companies, its pick was China."
But it _started_ with a description of how nearly all our generic acetaminophen and aspirin are coming from China.
Creepy. Hard to imagine how we are going to be reading about a really big scandal a la the melamine pet food/melamin in formula/bad heparin/etc. Makes you really think twice about the infant Tylenol.