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Re: Counterfeit Prescription Drugs
I saw this report the other month (I love 60 Minutes and try to watch it every single week. Yes I know I am old). My company spends millions of dollars a year combating this problem. Now I know for sure I can't say they are doing it for 100% altruistic motives, but this is becoming a bigger and bigger problem because the counterfeiters are becoming more and more sophisticated, and also just due to the outsourcing/commoditzation of drug production. When you need part of some plant from the Amazon rainforest or some other hard to obtain compound which only can be found in 1% of the world, it really becomes impossible to realistically police 100% of the supply chain, if you want to have any chance whatsoever of making this drug anywhere near affordable.
But this was pretty well documented in the report....It is scary. Also scary is the report about Glaxo and the terrible manufacturing process which was reported on a couple of months ago on 60 Minutes too.
I saw this report the other month (I love 60 Minutes and try to watch it every single week. Yes I know I am old). My company spends millions of dollars a year combating this problem. Now I know for sure I can't say they are doing it for 100% altruistic motives, but this is becoming a bigger and bigger problem because the counterfeiters are becoming more and more sophisticated, and also just due to the outsourcing/commoditzation of drug production. When you need part of some plant from the Amazon rainforest or some other hard to obtain compound which only can be found in 1% of the world, it really becomes impossible to realistically police 100% of the supply chain, if you want to have any chance whatsoever of making this drug anywhere near affordable.
But this was pretty well documented in the report....It is scary. Also scary is the report about Glaxo and the terrible manufacturing process which was reported on a couple of months ago on 60 Minutes too.
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