Posted by laima on February 27, 2007, at 15:52:17
In reply to Re: Drug manufacturing and quality control » notfred, posted by Larry Hoover on February 27, 2007, at 15:34:48
Wow- I never heard that! Horrifying!My doctor, a pharmacologist involved with some overseeing or monitoring of drug trials (something like that), has told me that generics are typically not as closely scrutinized by the fda as brand versions, though. The statement seemed neutral in judgement, part of a longer explanaition about possible reasons why some generics do not appear to be identical to the originals they are supposedly identical to.
Yet I had presumed part of the reason for that was that they were already considered safe and up to snuff?
Wow.
That's an intense story.
I did notice a brief "breaking news" blurb in the New York Times about two weeks ago- and then quite quickly it and the story vanished before I was able to go back to reread properly. Something about fbi or fda- someone pulled a surprise raid on Ranboxy Labs US office and shuffled through a load of papers, removing some documents, "no further info available", though a Ranboxy official confirmed it occured. Wonder what that was about?
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