Maybe it had something to do with preventing this: http://news.yahoo.com/six-arrested-fake-medicine-bust-europol-204954874.html
. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:348824 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
