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ProPublica Finds FDA Gives Foreign Drugmakers a 'Special Pass'

Original: We Know Where Our Food and Clothes Are Made. Why Not Our Prescriptions?

ProPublica published a 14-month investigation into how the Food and Drug Administration oversees foreign manufacturers of generic prescription drugs. The reporting concludes that the agency effectively allows plants abroad with substandard conditions to keep shipping medicines to the United States. The piece argues Americans can trace the origins of their food and clothing but not their medications, and calls for greater transparency and tougher enforcement in pharmaceutical supply chains.

Why now: The new ProPublica investigation is drawing attention because it exposes regulatory gaps that affect the safety of widely used generic drugs.

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• We Know Where Our Food and Clothes Are Made. Why Not Our Prescriptions? · ProPublica

  ProPublica spent 14 months investigating how the Food and Drug Administration regulates foreign drugmakers. We found a system that gives manufacturers a special pass to continue sending generic drugs from substandard factories to the U.S.

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