Is that drug you're taking real or fake? Why are we importing our pharmaceuticals from countries that are known counterfeiters?
- India, the second-largest exporter of over-the-counter and prescription
drugs to the US, is coming under increased scrutiny by
American regulators for safety lapses, falsified drug test results, and selling fake medicines. Over 40% of our over-the-counter
and generic prescription drugs come from India.
- The World Health Organization estimates that one in five drugs made in India are fakes
- Counterfeit medicines at a pediatric hospital in Kashmir are now suspected in hundreds of infant deaths. And the Uganda Cancer Institute received shipments of anti-cancer drugs from India that turned out to be counterfeit and inactive, with forged labels.
- One widely used antibiotic was found in a govt. lab test to contain no active ingredient. The test was kept secret for nearly a year while 100,000 useless pills continued to be dispensed.
- The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics, steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now made exclusively in China, home to some of the largest counterfeit manufacturing operations in the world.
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