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Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« on: May 7th, 2007, 6:33pm » |
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How much did the pharmaceutical industry pay to get this result??
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #1 on: May 7th, 2007, 9:12pm » |
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We elect them, the lobbiest buys them.
The government has gone fucking insane.
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #2 on: May 7th, 2007, 9:36pm » |
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2 SIDES OF AN ISSUE: Safety is a real concern as you can see below. But as you can see from the quote below (the last- the Avatar COO) the argument of US manufacture is bogus if the US manufacturer buys bad ingrediants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/americas/06poison.html?pagewante d=1&_r=2&th&emc=th2
"From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
In fact, The Times found records showing that the same Chinese company implicated in the Haiti poisoning also shipped about 50 tons of counterfeit glycerin to the United States in 1995. Some of it was later resold to another American customer, Avatar Corporation, before the deception was discovered.
“Thank God we caught it when we did,” said Phil Ternes, chief operating officer of Avatar, a Chicago-area supplier of bulk pharmaceuticals and nonmedicinal products. The F.D.A. said it was unaware of the shipment." Someone else probably caught it for them.
Doubt there is much poisoning going on in Canada...and a lot of people here see American doctors and Mexican doctors across the border where they also, get thier scrips.
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #3 on: May 7th, 2007, 9:50pm » |
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which by the way:
"about 50 tons of counterfeit glycerin to the United States in 1995. Some of it was later resold to another American customer, Avatar Corporation"
SOooooo if some of it was resold to Avatar "another American customer"- who else bought it and where is it?
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #4 on: May 7th, 2007, 10:02pm » |
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Unreal
The "poison pill" story says it all.
I remember the first few times this kind of thing came up about safety. It was because of the hundreds of Canadians dropping dead daily on Toronto Streets.
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #5 on: May 7th, 2007, 10:07pm » |
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on May 7th, 2007, 10:02pm, Charlie wrote:Unreal
The "poison pill" story says it all.
I remember the first few times this kind of thing came up about safety. It was because of the hundreds of Canadians dropping dead daily on Toronto Streets.
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Do you remember the cause? Just curious.
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #6 on: May 7th, 2007, 10:22pm » |
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if any foreign pill were poisonus then I should have died loooooong time ago, the same day I was born.
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #7 on: May 7th, 2007, 10:41pm » |
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It was a joke. One of my pet peeves is the ridiculous lengths our masters go to to scarce us into believing that Canadian drugs are dangerous.
Sorry. I didn't mean for anyone to take that seriously.
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #8 on: May 7th, 2007, 10:58pm » |
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What happened recently with the dog/cat food should be enough to make people think twice about importing food and especially medication. Where did the ingredients in the vitamins you took today come from? Actually, the three I took?
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #10 on: May 7th, 2007, 11:19pm » |
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on May 7th, 2007, 10:41pm, Charlie wrote:
It was a joke. One of my pet peeves is the ridiculous lengths our masters go to to scarce us into believing that Canadian drugs are dangerous.
Sorry. I didn't mean for anyone to take that seriously.
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 Really glad you said that 'cause I wasn't going to say what I was thinking about your data base....
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #11 on: May 7th, 2007, 11:21pm » |
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on May 7th, 2007, 11:19pm, chucknot wrote:
Really glad you said that 'cause I wasn't going to say what I was thinking about your data base....
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Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
« Reply #13 on: May 8th, 2007, 2:28am » |
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on May 7th, 2007, 10:02pm, Charlie wrote:
I remember the first few times this kind of thing came up about safety. It was because of the hundreds of Canadians dropping dead daily on Toronto Streets.
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I thought that was in 1978 and 1979--when the Blue Jays lost over a hundred games in each of those seasons. Apoplexy.
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