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Tip o’ the hat to the Alliance for Retired Americans for the following.
Last week, Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sent a letter to the CEOs of the 10 largest pharmaceutical firms, requesting information on the extent to which those firms are outsourcing drug manufacturing to suppliers in foreign nations, as well as the level of safety oversight over that production.
The pharmaceutical industry has opposed bipartisan drug-importation legislation by claiming that consumers would be placed at risk by such imports, despite the abundant evidence to the contrary.
Yet, according to a report in The Washington Post, more than 40 percent of the active ingredients in pharmaceutical products sold in the United States now originate in China and India—countries with inadequate regulatory agencies to ensure these ingredients are of high quality and produced under the FDA’s Good Manufacturing Practice requirements.
The lawmakers sent the letter after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported recently that only 7 percent of foreign plants are inspected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) annually.
The GAO also determined that the FDA does not know how many foreign facilities are actually making products for the U.S. market. The two senators asked for information, including which countries produce the companies’ drugs or ingredients for use in this nation and the most recent date on which each of the facilities in those countries was inspected.
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I have a simple solution to all the toxic imports. Instead of continuing to import the potentially toxic goods we should simply bring the manufacturing of goods back to the US and PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK! The economies of China and India are outpacing that of the US thanks to our exporting of all our manufacturing jobs. It seems the greedy ultra-rich among us want to turn our nation into a third world country. Once they’ve accomplished that I guess they’ll simply move elsewhere and let those of us with little or no wealth have what’s left of what WAS the USA. What a great legacy for future generations!
When are the rest of congressman going to wake up. Thanks Senator Dorgan again. Your book “Take This Job and Ship It” should be read by everyone.
Now now, we all know how the market deals with this, people die, slaes drop and practices change. Stop trying to strangle Bush’s economy with regulations and proper attiutdes. If you don’t some very wealthy people will be less wealthy and some workers will be better off-cant have that.
So what’s wrong with the United States, anyway, can’t make our own products anymore? Well we can and we should, and we should have been doing this all along, before the whole outsourcing situation has put a strangle hold on America and her people. We are such a foolish nation.
I agree wholeheartedly with ‘No Amnesty’; let’s “bring the manufacturing of goods back to the US and PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK!” I know many people who really need good, secure jobs.