According to a new survey, most Americans support enhanced drug safety, to the point where they would support stronger laws for it.  In fact, 81% of Americans say they would support a law that would place strong new drug safety measures in place.

The survey has very interesting findings for Texas product liability lawyers.  According to the survey, 86% of men and 91% of men support stronger legislation proposed to enhance drug safety in the country.  The proposed legislation is called the Drug Safety and Accountability Act, and is meant to increase consumer safeguards to keep Americans safe.

Seventy percent of respondents in the survey said that they were very confident about the safety of drugs manufactured in the US.  When it came to drugs manufactured outside of the country however, there was plenty of mistrust.  55% of the respondents wanted the federal administration to do more to guarantee the safety of medications manufactured in other countries.  I would blame the heparin scandal in 2008 which involved contaminated ingredients manufactured in China and the FDA’s minimal oversight of drugs manufactured overseas, for that low opinion of foreign-made drugs.

Ninety four percent believe that the FDA should have the power to mandate recalls, and 95% believe the FDA should be given the power to hold and dispose of drugs that it believes are contaminated.  96% want manufacturers to inform the FDA when they discover contaminated drugs.  86% want inspections of foreign drug manufacturing facilities at least once every two years.  Inspections of drug facilities has been a major concern for me, because the FDA currently rarely inspects foreign facilities, if at all.  An increasing number of ingredients included in the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs are currently being produced in foreign countries, where manufacturing standards are not as high in the US.

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