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Unsafe drugs--they're not just for foreigners anymore.(Drug Safety)

Publication: Medicine & Health

Publication Date: 15-SEP-03
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Debate rages about how safe patients are if they buy U.S.-made drugs reimported from Canadian pharmacies (see story, p. 3). But evidence suggests that, at least in some places, state and federal officials may have an equally hard time ensuring the safety of drugs purchased right here at home.

A series of alarming press reports over the past few years have documented egregious cases of counterfeiting, dilution, and contamination of drugs by segments of Florida's wholesale drug industry, for...

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