pharmaceutical liability’
Report Shows Americans Continue to Be at Risk from Defective Foreign-Manufactured Drugs
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
A report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that the Food and Drug Administration has made little progress in addressing the problem of infrequent and insufficient inspections of foreign drug manufacturing facilities.
Many of the drugs that Americans now consume are manufactured in plants in China, India and other foreign countries. The Food and Drug Administration has devoted precious few resources to inspecting these plants. The biggest scandal related to spurious drugs manufactured in foreign plants was Baxter’s heparin scandal of 2008. Contaminated heparin manufactured at a plant in China was linked to several deaths
The GAO released a...
Americans Want Safer Medications
Friday, August 27th, 2010
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...
