It seems to me that I remember an outcry about the underlying assumption that Canadian pharmacies were run by furriners who did not know how to meet the FDA's high (ha!) standards and could not be trusted to do so. This outcry may have been in the Canadian media, since I read that too.
I spent some time on Google unsuccessfully trying to research this when they were trying to ram SOPA through, since it had some provisions about endangering Americans with dangerous furrin drugs. As best I could determine it said it was targeting counterfeit drugs but actually targeted all drugs from foreign sources. I found something that said that FDA approvals for drugs often specify a specific manufacturing method and also location. (!) If true this would mean that back before Claritin became an over-the-counter drug I was paying twelve times more for it than my mother was in Canada because of the dubious benefit of buying something that was made in Ohio or Utah or whatever the FDA-approved location was. There was also some verbiage about language that made me wonder if the objected to the presence of French on the patient information sheet, as though maybe Americans were not able to turn the page over and find the English. But. I could not tell if this was the version that actually passed. Seems to me it was part of Medicare "reform"? If so what I saw would have been some sort of draft maybe, but not the bill itself. What I am getting to here is -- has anyone researched this already or does anyone know where I can find a nice summary of the history of this legislation? Thanks for any brainpower devoted to this question. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348697 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
