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Maybe the Indian generic companies should worry a little more about the frogs and flies in their manufacturing facilities. And maybe they shouldn't delete test results.

Welcome to the global race to the bottom. I doubt that a little pressure from multinational pharma companies will do much to reverse the overall trend.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-03/indian-lab...

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>I doubt that a little pressure from multinational pharma companies will do much to reverse the overall trend.

Good. An imperfect (with the odd frog), but cheap, system that can save thousands of lives is perfectly acceptable to me.

Really? I'd rather die than eat some fly poop that found its way to my life-saving medication!

Than do that, but don't stop others. Have your originals, let those that need it have their generics. Just because you shop at waitrose doesn't give you the right to stop people shopping at Aldi!

StavrosK is being sarcastic. That's why he specified 'life-saving medication'.

Thank you, you nailed it.

My bad. Sorry.

No problem, you can never tell with Poe's law.

Apparently I needed the sarcasm tag. Who would take "I'd rather die than eat fly poop" seriously?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Center...

The implications of dirty drug synthesis and medication compounding processes are dangerous and real.

Deleted testing results are a red flag; however, keep in mind that lack of evidence to the contrary is not evidence of the positive. I see this more as regulation being used to limit international competition than anything promoting general human welfare.

They definitely are real, but I'm not sure that the case is so clear-cut against generics. Would you rather save the lives of 100,000 people and cause 2,000 of them meningitis, or have 100,000 people die because they can't get cheap medication?

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