Posted on 02/12/2020 11:07:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When you pick up your prescription at the pharmacy, it isn’t labelled “made in China,” but odds are that’s where many of your medications come from.
President Trump is calling on US industries to manufacture here at home, instead of outsourcing to China. Drug companies — which now rely on China for active ingredients that go into antibiotics, heart medicines and other drugs we need to stay alive — should be the first to respond to Trump’s plea.
That reliance is a threat to national security. And the squalid conditions in many Chinese drug factories pose a health risk to Americans who have to take the medicines.
US factories no longer make generic antibiotics. So, if US-China tensions worsen, China could cut off antibiotic exports, throwing our hospitals into turmoil, warns Hastings Center health expert Rosemary Gibson.
The federal US-China Economic and Safety Review Commission warned this summer about the dangers of American reliance on China for life-saving drugs.
The commission also cautioned about “serious deficiencies in health and safety standards” in Chinese drug factories. Translation: Beware of putting anything made in China in your mouth.
The Food and Drug Administration claims pharmaceutical ingredients from China are safe. Don’t believe it. The agency has a long history of failing to oversee foreign drug sources, according to scathing reports from the federal Government Accountability Office.
The GAO found that the FDA inspects Chinese drug manufacturing plants infrequently, at best, and some may never get inspected. In the United States, pharmaceutical plants are inspected every two years.
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A lot of thyroid medicine is made there.
How many drugs will not be imported because they’re not being manufactured because the Chinese factory workers are in quarantine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5cnm-RAC4
All High Blood Pressure (hypertension) medications are from China and Chinese ingredients, also
FDA regulations on pharma manufacturing are so severe it is an easy option to use other countries to do it. So while you are bashing “Big Pharma” for whatever, note that its your fedgov that has created this unreasonable environment for which to product these important products.
Pur military medications depend heavily on China...
To avoid some of these issues I try to stock up in advance.
But 1) doctors forcing you to wait til your sick to give you an Rx for antibiotic. You can’t have it on hand.
2) insurance will only pay for 30 days at a time
BUREAUCRACY KILLS YOU.
Given that India and China can both produce nearly any medication, it could be that where medication comes from varies from month to month depending on who the low bidder is that month. I also think big pharma has a lot of smoke and mirrors in place so it's difficult to actually tell where their products come from at any given point in time.
Big pharma made deals with Chinese labs to supply cheaper base ingredients. Then, guess what happened after the Chinese plants got geared up and profitable, and Chinese pharma got hungry?
We have a huge government-healthcare-pharma-insurance complex. They’re all complicit in what’s happened/happening.
I blame Algor. As VP, he solicited bribes...er, donations, from the trial lawyers to keep legislation from being enacted that would have set limits beyond actual damages on most prescription drug/vaccine-related lawsuits.
The Chinese contribution to human welfare is immeasurable and China’s role will only grow larger in the decades ahead.
Some pharmacies won't refill until you've consumed at least 75 percent of the previous fill. I don't know how common that is or why they refuse, but a few months ago I drove my neighbor to the pharmacy because she couldn't afford a second ride in a cab after the pharmacist told her to come back in a few days. (That would have added about $20 to the cost of the medicine.)
So...if you’re a prepper who needs medication to survive, don’t bother to pack for 60 days if you can’t go 30 without the meds!
There was the case of Valsartan - made in both India & China. Turns out they had reside of rocket fuel and were causing many types of cancer. No oversight, no testing and thousands of Americans dead or dying.
It’s like everyone has forgotten what the Chicoms did to DOG FOOD. Why would anyone expect them to not cheat on the much more profitable pharmaceuticals?
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