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‘Unacceptable’: Prominent US senators demand FDA provide names of troubled foreign drugmakers skirting import bans
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“That means the FDA may be allowing potentially unsafe, low-quality drugs into American homes, and our seniors are especially at risk.
Baker said his findings and those of other inspectors were undermined by the exemptions from import bans.
Inspectors over the years have uncovered filthy water, vials of medication that were “blackish” from contamination and raw materials tainted with unknown “extraneous matter” at foreign factories, government records show.
Documents on drug quality testing have been destroyed, and in one case, workers poured acid on some that had been stuffed in a trash bag.
“The FDA should never have allowed corporations with unsafe foreign factories to import risky drugs or ingredients,” Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., said in a statement.
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