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There were actually a number of scandals out of India on this front as well:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/12/7222165...

It's extremely hard to enforce GMP and QA/QC from across the world and there's a strong incentive to cheat and lie when it comes to these costly procedures. Whether it'll be any better in a US manufacturing facility is of course up for debate.

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I had never before heard the acronym GMP in this context. It appears to mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_manufacturing_practice

> Because the FDA requires very specific GMP requirements that differ from those of the EU and other countries, drugs approved or synthesized without US FDA certification cannot be legally sold in the U.S.

Sounds a bit like trade protectionism - but I assume that goes both ways between e.g. EU and US.

https://www.quora.com/Which-caste-is-looting-India/answers/2...

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