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.
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.