China RX: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine Gibson Rosemary
China RX: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine Gibson Rosemary Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical…
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China RX: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine Gibson Rosemary
Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. Several decades ago, penicillin, vitamin C, and many other prescription and over-the-counter products were manufactured in the United States. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.
China's biggest impact on the US drug supply is making essential ingredients for thousands of medicines found in American homes and used in hospital intensive care units and operating rooms. But with the rise of globalization, antibiotics, antidepressants, birth control pills, blood pressure medicines, cancer drugs, among many others are made in China and sold in the United States. The authors convincingly argue that there are at least two major problems with this scenario.
First, it is