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(NaturalNews) In case you haven't heard, the popular blood thinning drug Heparin was voluntarily recalled by its manufacturer (Baxter) after hundreds of reports surfaced linking the drug to sudden deaths and severe allergic reactions requiring hospitalization. Drug safety investigators have now confirmed "irregularities" in various batches of the drug, meaning that some pills contained more active chemicals than other pills. But the main focus of the story by the U.S. press is the fact that the primary active ingredient in Heparin is made in a factory in China that has never been inspected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Furthermore, the chemical is derived from processed pig intestines.
Hold the presses. Did the mainstream press really just admit all that? Yep. Now the general public is suddenly aware that China not only produces contaminated, deadly dog food products and toothpaste, but also that it makes dangerous pharmaceutical ingredients that are imported into the United States and sold to consumers as "American" drugs.
The pharmaceutical blockade against American consumersThe fact that these dangerous drug ingredients are made in China and imported into the United States is of particular interest, given that the FDA has long insisted that "drugs from outside the United States are unsafe." This was the whole argument behind the FDA's banning of drugs from Canada and internet pharmacies -- a move that just happened to force Americans to pay monopoly prices for drugs from a controlled, price-fixed U.S. drug wholesale market.
But now, as the mainstream media has revealed the disturbing fact that pharmaceutical ingredients are sourced not merely from outside the United States, but from China -- the undisputed world leader in contaminated products -- it is becoming apparent to everyone that the FDA's blockade against the importation of finished drugs (but not their ingredients) is merely a protectionist racket put in place to guarantee monopoly profits for Big Pharma. Consumer safety, it seems, has nothing to do with the FDA's insistence that Americans be denied free trade access to imported pharmaceuticals.
How do I know safety has nothing to do with it? Because the FDA hasn't even inspected 93% of the factories located around the world that manufacture these chemical ingredients used in pharmaceuticals. So despite the FDA's insistence that it practices the "gold standard" of drug safety in the United States, the reality is that nine out of ten factories making ingredients for FDA-approved pharmaceuticals have never been inspected or approved by the FDA! These numbers don't exactly inspire confidence in the safety of FDA-approved drugs, do they?
In other words, the FDA is openly allowing drug companies to buy contaminated chemical ingredients from questionable factories in Puerto Rico, Brazil, China and other countries, then to mark up those ingredients by as much as 569,000% over cost and sell them directly to the public under a monopoly-controlled price fixing system enforced by the FDA itself! So in exchange for the "privilege" of paying the highest prices in the world for pharmaceuticals, Americans are also treated to the lowest-quality ingredients found anywhere in the world -- the same cut-rate ingredients sold in bulk to poor countries where generic drugs are manufactured and sold at a fraction of the price paid by American consumers.
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