Historic Drug Shortage Exacerbated by EPA Overreach

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2 ^ | 5/5/2024 | W. Caffey Norman, Real Clear Wire

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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By W. Caffey Norman Real Clear Wire

Concerning new reports reveal that the drug shortage in the U.S. has reached its highest level since the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists began tracking data. In total, 323 medicines are now in short supply.

However, the problem is about to get worse because of government regulations on an entirely different issue. Counterintuitive measures from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are set to effectively ban the domestic production of chemicals that are used in the process of manufacturing vital prescription drugs and vaccines.

Shortly after Congress amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 2016, the EPA began the rulemaking process on 10 chemicals currently in use in the United States using a broad and overreaching definition of “unreasonable risk.” Now, the EPA is expected to release a final rule on methylene chloride under TSCA.

Methylene chloride has several applications, including in the process of manufacturing hundreds of medicines and vaccines like those that treat Hepatitis B and HIV infections, mental illnesses and epilepsy, heart failure and high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

If this rule goes into effect, it will exacerbate the drug shortage by bringing domestic manufacturing to a halt while making our supply chains more reliant on foreign nations like China for pharmaceuticals. This runs in direct contradiction to the Biden administration’s “Investing in America” agenda, which aims to onshore supply chains critical to our economy and security.

For example, methylene chloride is used to make hollow fiber cartridges which are used in the manufacture of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines, including the COVID-19, HPV, Hepatitis B, and flu vaccines, as well as therapies for arthritis, migraines, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases. In a letter to the EPA, the company that produces

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[FreedomPoster]

Regulatory overreach is about to kill us in many ways. Drugs, energy, refrigerants, you name it.

[Dogbert41]

Save the planet; ban bureaucrats.

[monkeyshine]

Dihydrogen monoxide is very dangerous too. Thousands die from over exposure, and some from under exposure, every year. It is so deadly that California tore down several reservoirs of it very recently to protect fish and displace mammals.

[LegendHasIt]

And intentionally so.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A few more…Automobiles, trucks, train locomotives.

[metmom]

Democrats and leftists are leaving no stone unturned in their attempts to find new ways to kill us off.

[Sequoyah101]

I may be one of them, my time is short anyway, but a lot of people are going to have to die at the hands of these stupid people before it makes a big enough impact for the sheeple to rise up and stop them. If the insult of the covid insanity has not done it, and it has not, you get an idea of how bad and how many will have to die. It is going to take extreme prejudice to stop them. They not only have to be stopped now, they have to be ended for as long as possible.

Public comment periods are just a farcical box checking exercise. Federal agencies have done all they wanted to do no matter what public opinion is. They control the vote and the results.

9/11 was not enough, the great recession was not enough, obama was not enough, covid was not enough and biden has not been enough. With each success of their agenda they become more bold and outrageous. What is it going to take to shake the sheeple from their comfort and gaming consoles, their drunkenness, drugs and debauchery to not just say enough but act to stop the destruction.

[vivenne]

I think the same every day, all day long. My conclusion, sadly, is the majority of people are too far gone to ever recognize or understand what is going on and will, therfore, drag the rest of us down with them.

[vivenne]

therefore

[EandH Dad]

I had a friend who was an Environmental Scientist. At one time his job was to write the protocols for waste disposal for each step in the process of manufacturing a particular pharmaceutical. Every step had to have a separate insurance policy. Turned out the total insurance cost of manufacture was too expensive to compete with the big three ED meds. Government regulations let him make a really good living on a product that would never get to market.

[joe fonebone]

Please show where in that pesky constitution thingie that the fed was granted the right to regulate the environment.

[Sequoyah101]

Rain falls on the just and the unjust the same.