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[deleted] t1_j5tz95i wrote

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Galactic_Danger t1_j5ud005 wrote

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

By: Katherine Eban

Really great book about the generic drug trade that was recommended here on reddit when this first hit the news. Very eye opening about the lax standards in place in certain countries for drug manufacturing and contamination.

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krad-31337 t1_j5wdnxr wrote

This is sadly not the first, second or third time this has happened.

It is usually some f'cking counterfeiter who is selling cheap diethylene glycol labeled as pharma-grade glycerine or propylene glycol.

I am not a generally a violent man, but stuff like this...

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Aware_Emphasis8186 t1_j66dcab wrote

same thing for melamine for baby formula years back to trick tests to thinking it had more protein content than it actually did

it hospitalized 54k babies

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BadaBina t1_j5u94nx wrote

BAYER ENTERS THE CHAT

"Here, hold my Aspirin..." 😣

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SurgBear t1_j5ws8fn wrote

Are you referring to the Tylenol murders?

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BadaBina t1_j5wxswx wrote

Nope. That time Bayer sold a whole fuckload of HIV contaminated aspirin to Japan and the Middle East. Iran, Iraq, and Japan I think. I love the downvotes. Downvoted for being horrified that this keeps happening and nobody stops it, or downvoted because someone just didn't understand it and thought I was a big ol meanie. Either way, it says a lot.

I am old enough to remember the Tylenol murders here though. My grandmother wouldn't let us take anything but Yarrow, Lantana and Milkweed for any and all illness. I think it took 11 years before she trusted the "factory sealing." ....

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Simple-Stop5679 t1_j5wz39j wrote

You don't understand it though. Bayer sold tainted plasma. You can't get HIV by ingesting a pill. Your right in that Bayer is a horrible company given it's history, but you can't call people out for not understanding when you don't even have the facts right.

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BadaBina t1_j5x1979 wrote

I knew about the blood but I honestly could have sworn that it was ALSO contaminated medication. I looked and looked and you're correct. Absolutely not aspirin at all!

GIMME ALL YA DOWNVOTES, MOTHERFUCKERS, COS I GOT IT COMIN!

I really appreciate the correction and I accept full responsibility for my unnecessarily saucily impolite attitude towards people who didn't understand when the not understander was ME. IT WAS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Thanks, man 💚

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Suunaabas t1_j5u80db wrote

Please for the love of jimmy jams, change the name to Global Health Organization. Every headline with them I’m like “Who urges action?” i don’t know, you tell me. Oh W.H.O. Dammit.

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sabjsc t1_j5ul55y wrote

WHO's on first, CDC's on second

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PuellaBona t1_j5uug8s wrote

I think of the band. Like, what does the who have to do with cough syrup contamination.

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Hot_Marionberry_4685 t1_j5u2pi7 wrote

I honestly can’t imagine spending your entire life studying and learning science and math so you can help the world and save lives only to have groups of incels who can barely read at a 3rd grade level call you the bad guy

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PuellaBona t1_j5uunwn wrote

Thanks for this. I was wondering what the who had done and was about to start Googling.

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Agent_Angelo_Pappas t1_j5tla97 wrote

I mean, what other organizations are looking out for developing nations in relation to things like medicine safety? Sure, if you live in a wealthy nation that has much more proficient regulatory authorities overseeing your medical care systems you’re probably better off listening to them over the WHO.

But if you live in a developing nation that doesn’t have the money to support authorities like that and is beholden to sourcing from less than ideal companies, the WHO is generally better than nothing. Do you think it’s actually a bad thing they are making noise about contaminated children’s medicines and working to expose those companies so people less fortunate than us can avoid them?

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Yonder_Zach t1_j5u99sd wrote

They are. Anyone telling you theyre not is lying to you, intentionally, because they think you’re a moron they can easily grift.

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