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(Message started by: Rosybabe on May 7^th, 2007, 6:33pm)

Title: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by Rosybabe on May 7^th, 2007, 6:33pm

How much did the pharmaceutical industry pay to get this result??

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18530709/

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by JeffB on May 7^th, 2007, 9:12pm

We elect them, the lobbiest buys them.

The government has gone fucking insane.

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by chucknot on May 7^th, 2007, 9:36pm

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?pagewanted=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.

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by chucknot on May 7^th, 2007, 9:50pm

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?

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by Charlie on May 7^th, 2007, 10:02pm

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.

Charlie

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by chucknot on May 7^th, 2007, 10:07pm

on 05/07/07 at 22:02:45, Charlie wrote:

Do you remember the cause? Just curious.

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by Rosybabe on May 7^th, 2007, 10:22pm

if any foreign pill were poisonus then I should have died loooooong time ago, the same day I was born.

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by Charlie on May 7^th, 2007, 10:41pm

Quote:

Do you remember the cause? Just curious.

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.

Charlie

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by pieface_49 on May 7^th, 2007, 10:58pm

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?

Donnie

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by Rosybabe on May 7^th, 2007, 11:10pm

what does not kill you will make you stronger

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by chucknot on May 7^th, 2007, 11:19pm

on 05/07/07 at 22:41:37, Charlie wrote:

:-X Really glad you said that 'cause I wasn't going to say what I was thinking about your data base....

:)

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by chucknot on May 7^th, 2007, 11:21pm

on 05/07/07 at 23:19:56, chucknot wrote:

:-X Really glad you said that 'cause I wasn't going to say what I was thinking about your data base....

:)

Obviously, I don't know personalities around here though I have a clue to some from postings. My new effort is to be more circumspect.

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by artonio7 on May 8^th, 2007, 2:23am

on 05/07/07 at 23:10:43, Rosybabe wrote:

what does not kill you will make you stronger

ROFLMAO ;;D

with warm regards,
Tony

Title: Re: Senate kills bid to import prescription drugs
Post by George_J on May 8^th, 2007, 2:28am

on 05/07/07 at 22:02:45, 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.

Charlie

I thought that was in 1978 and 1979--when the Blue Jays lost over a hundred games in each of those seasons. Apoplexy.