Someone call?
Posted on 06/24/2008 2:02:19 PM PDT by Incorrigible
You pays your money and you takes your chances.
The Chinese market has been riddled with counterfeit drugs, and its drug regulatory agency has been beset by corruption.
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China CANNOT BE TRUSTED to ship quality drugs. They are corrupt in business as a way of life. The Heparin deaths caused by their defective junk product is testimony to their total lack of quality and care about same.
Even if the Chinese can bribe enough government officials, I will never purchase a Chinese-produced generic product if it can be identified as such.
There is a great deal to like about the Chinese culture, but anyone who believes that Chinese society adheres to the same conceptions of objectivity and the truth that we do in The West is a fool.
At some point, the Chinese will determine that it is time for us to go to war. At that point, I hope I am not using any prescription drugs. We won’t quite know that a war is coming, but our people will be dieing already.
As I recall, the Bush administration was savaged for not expiditing the reimportation of drugs from Canada, many of which were Chinese Knock-Offs.
Worse than that. It's not that they produce impure ingredients. They produce ingredients doctored to pass standard lab tests. In the pet food poisonings last year, a Chinese firm sold gluten containing some compounds used to manufacture plastics -- compounds that have no nutritional value, and are poisonous in combination, but test high in nitrogen.
We need a few lawsuits against US firms buying ingredients for food or feed or drugs from China. Make the firms rethink how much they save on cheap Chinese ingredients.
What about the generics from India, like the firm Ranbaxy? Are they OK? I just got some generics from Longs Drugs her in CA and they are now using Ranbaxy, which appears to be Indian.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
Neither will I. It is not too early to start letting big pharmacy chains know how we feel about that.
I am not an expert but have had mixed results with Indian pharmaceuticals. Before Prilosec (omeprazole) was made OTC here, I had the Ranbaxy generic. It was much less effective and I had to take double the dose, but I am willing to bet that was because the particular lot was too old (could have been stored by the supplier for who knows how long). When major players are doing the import/export that shouldn’t be a problem. Other drugs such as ciprofloxin have been just fine.
Never thought I’d be asking the pharmacies... “Can I get that in Name Brand?”.
Thank you. I am on Atenolol, a beta blocker, very low dose for benign arrythmia/palpitations. It’s the generic for Tenormin. The same generic I had earlier was from Canada.
I got nervous hearing about China’s drugs so when I saw Ranbaxy on the new bottle I wondered about it and found it is Indian.
So far, I think it’s OK — I feel no different than I did before and pulse rate is not elevated so we shall see.
Ping.
50 dolla make you holla. You go now!
I asked CVS pharmacist if the medicine I got was from China. She told me all our medicine is approved by the FDA. I asked again if its made in China and she responded with the same answer as before. I felt she really did not know the answer.
It can be hard to get name-brand drugs now. I have found that my son’s acne meds are significantly less effective when they are generic. Unfortunately, the pharmacy doesn’t like to stock the name brand, and they give me a royal run-around over my insistence on the branded items. It worries me that my elderly dad is on a lot of meds, and probably most are generic. I don’t want to scare him, but I’m concerned that his cardio and diabetes meds aren’t up to snuff. Ironically, he’s a retired pharmaceutical researcher with significant clinical success to his discoveries. Now he has to worry about whether his meds are safe. I really hate the China trade . . .
Ping
I got some generic modafinil from India that works just fine. I know there are risks, but what the hell. Can’t be much worse for me than the moldy weed and strychnine blotter I encountered when I was young and foolish. The foolish part may still apply, but at least I am a productive fool. That modafinil is the best stuff ever. If they’d discovered it a hundred years ago, it would be in beverages in place of caffeine.
China is a hole. Beijing is an awful place. The pollution is stunning, the buildings ugly, the streets dirty, and the people pushy.
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