Unless you are yourself a chemist or have access to one, you have no way of knowing whether the drug you are buying is in fact that real deal or some watered down conterfeit. I've already told you that the drug was approved by the FDA, is not manufactured in the US, is not reimported, is not mislabled, is not adulterated, and is not on a DEA schedule, and is sold with proper package inserts. If you can find a citation to the US Code that says that it's not legal for me to buy it from a pharmacy in Europe, please do so. My take on it is that the FDA really, really wishes I wouldn't, but it's not illegal for me to do what I do.
I realize I'm probably wasting my time, but anyway:
U.S. Moves to Shut Companies Selling Imported Drugs
By Gary Gately
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDayNews) -- Moving to curb the cross-border flow of prescription drugs, the U.S. government asked a judge Thursday to shut down an Oklahoma-based company that sells Canadian drugs at about 80 storefront locations across the Unites States.
The U.S. Justice Department filed suit in U.S. District Court in Tulsa, Okla., seeking an injunction to close Rx Depot Inc. of Tulsa and its sister company, Rx of Canada LLC. The lawsuit came in response to a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which said the company is importing drugs that pose a "serious threat to the public health."
"The defendant caused the importation of prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies, which clearly violates the law and poses significant risk to the public health," the lawsuit said.
Rx Depot, according to an FDA statement, falsely promoted drugs it called "FDA-approved" and "exactly the same as if purchased in the United States." But the FDA said in its March letter that prescription drugs purchased from foreign countries "generally are not FDA-approved, do not meet FDA standards and are not the same as drugs purchased in the United States."
McClellan said the FDA lacks the resources to assure the safety of unapproved drugs imported into the United States.
"Unapproved drugs," he said, "are more likely to be contaminated, counterfeit, contain different amounts of active ingredients or contain different ingredients altogether."
In an unrelated action, the FDA said it had warned some firms to stop sales of an "unapproved, mislabeled" version of the acne drug Accutane. The unnamed companies sold the drug over the Internet without requiring a prescription, the FDA said, and Accutane can cause birth defects and has been linked to possible suicidal thoughts in some patients.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.asp?docID=515064 The news is chock full of stories about this, such as:
http://www.pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=94813&categoryid=27 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/business/30FAKE.html?ex=1070773200&en=6f19c0046db80d73&ei=5070 But since my original point was that what Roberts is encouraging is in fact illegal, which she and Krischer both admit, your tangent is a bit off the point anway.