ChiCapcumCom ping!
Did anyone see that asshole Sen. John Dingel during this hearing? He is atypical of Democrats. A complete and total jerk, that used his bully pulpit to degrade people, when he himself is just as responsible as anyone for this mess.
Of course. The FDA isn't working for us, it's working for the politicians who have been paid off by the companies who find it much more profitable to import ingredients from China.
The authorities did their best to play down the poisoned dog food incident, but that was the one that got away from them.
And can anyone doubt that the Chinese deliberately put ethalene glycol into toothpaste and other products that poisoned people, because it tests like glycerine if you don't check too closely?
There was deliberate counterfeiting in a lot of these cases. The dog food was deliberate, too--a chemical was added to make it seem as if it had more protein in it.
I thought that monitory was misspelled. Learned a new word today.
U.S. companies already import 40 percent of API [active pharmaceutical ingredients] from India and China, a number that is expected to double within a decade.I am not buying any of the "reassurances" offered in this article, either.
... The regnant political opinion today is to allow more intermediaries to import more drugs from overseas.
... Interpol and the World Customs Organization should continue to encourage vigilance in exporting countries, and the FDA should send more inspectors to overseas production facilities in China and India.