Posted on 03/15/2011 1:17:55 PM PDT by traumer
Firm gets three orders per MINUTE instead of per week People missing out on tablets are 'crying' and 'terrified' Fears radiation from Japan will reach U.S. West Coast
Worried Americans are panic-buying drugs to protect themselves against the nuclear fallout in Japan, as fears grow of harmful radiation blowing across to the West Coast. Stocks of potassium iodide tablets, which aim to stop radiation poisoning the thyroid gland, are running low and customers missing out are said to be ‘crying’ or ‘terrified’. Scientists have warned of a 'worst-case scenario' in which material blasted into the atmosphere after a Fukushima plant ‘meltdown’ could be blown towards the U.S.
Radioactive iodine can come out of a nuclear reactor in an accident, but other experts say there is a low chance of Japan's radiation reaching the U.S. at dangerous levels. Anbex quickly sold out of a 10,000-strong supply of 14-tablet packages on Saturday. Company president Alan Morris said the firm was getting three orders per minute for the $10 Iosat packages - compared to the normal rate of as low as three per week. ‘Those who don't get it are crying,’ he told the Wall Street Journal. ‘They're terrified.’
Fleming Pharmaceuticals, which makes liquid potassium iodide, say they are getting dozens of calls and emails every hour for their 45ml $13.25 ThyroShield bottles.
‘It actually has been insanity here,’ co-owner Deborah Fleming Wurdack said. The company expects to sell out this week and is planning to manufacture more.
Drug supplier Nukepills.com sold 250,000 potassium iodide pills to pharmacies, labs, companies and hospitals last weekend, president Troy Jones told Fox News. It has back-ordered more than a million tablets and donated 50,000 to Japan.
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OMG !!
OMG !!
I got a whole bunch of these pills, I’ll sell them for half what I paid for Y2K. Only $500 a pill. A minimum of 14 days is suggested.
Should we in California be doing this?
Imbeciles.
probably not but then again, “be prepared”. I wonder what the shelf life is?
Not meant to scare you, but you should have been thinking of leaving that place a long time ago. Good weather, nice surroundings, laid-back lifestyle - whatever, don’t make up for all the ills that state has bestowed on itself voluntarily along with the environmental potential disasters that can (matter of time) happen.
Better keep’em....SRP is just one state away.....
I would love to leave but my family is here, my husband has his license here. He is adamant about staying? :(
Couple of years. Should have an expiration date on the side of the package.
Shelf life depends on brand, packaging, and storage. Anbex IOSAT is FDA approved for 7 years.
lol.
I bought enough for my family a couple days after 9/11. Not being paranoid, just cautious.
Mine are on sale now for only $249.99 per capsule.
Thanks - the ones I had were good for, I think, 3 years. Flushed them a year or two after they expired.
Seriously? If you are within the danger zone of a nuclear reactor it is required you be supplied with these tablets. There is a lot of information on them including dosage and side effects. Not sure, but I am hypothyroid so I think it would be the final death knell to my thyroid. I am just guessing there. I am not sure what the side effects are if you take them for no reason other than fear.
>> People missing out on tablets are ‘crying’ and ‘terrified’
...also ‘gullible’, ‘ignorant’, ‘naive’, and ‘misinformed”’.
That map is a hoax. A fraud.
In other words, public school educated.
They are also probably many of the same people who supported Obamacare because they were outraged at the "obscene profits" being made by the pharmaceutical industry.
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