ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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NotARobot
@TruelyNotARobot@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@ProPublica Im on levetiracetam, one of the drugs that they allowed to be imported. I've had experience with my medication being producer dependant, sometimes it's working perfectly, others it's barely working or in some cases producing side effects so bad that I can't even move without extreme naustia and pain. To hear that this was the cause is heartbreaking.
Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@ProPublica the FDA already has dubious guidelines for testing bioequivalence of drugs and they also have their heads so far up their arse FOR YEARS that they refused to look into a certain drug (Wellbutrin) that was dose dumping. It wasn’t until a radio(? I can’t recall) figure brought it up that they FINALLY looked at it. And then suddenly it was pulled from the market. For dose dumping. For many years they have allowed drugs that other countries rightly banned.