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Counterfeit medicines kill up to 300,000 children each year In a shocking new report published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers have documented the true toll of counterfeit medicines around the world due to medicine being subtherapeutic or outright ineffective. Subtherapeutic medicine allows patients to die without sufficient treatment, but it also creates treatment resistant…
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The editorial board of the The Wall Street Journal published this editorial on April 15, 2019. In it, they write:
“The argument that drug importation threatens the integrity of the drug supply is often dismissed because pharmaceutical lobbyists make it. But keeping the drug supply free from contaminated or counterfeit products is not easy, and the World Health Organization has warned that 1 in 10 medical products in the developing world are phony. It isn’t clear who is liable if counterfeits are found in Florida, but you can bet it won’t be the politicians.”
Read MoreSPEAK UP: Tell the Maine legislature that we need real progress on healthcare costs, not fantasy policy like Canadian importation You can use our helpful letter writing tool to write an email to your legislators which will be sent directly to them.
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April 12, 2019 (Tallahassee, FL) — Importation undermines our core efforts to keep our medicine supply safe. State and federal authorities regulate every entity in the U.S. supply chain from the point of manufacture until a medicine is dispensed, and that makes counterfeits in the legitimate supply chain rare. In 2013, Congress passed the Drug Supply Chain Security Act to…
Read MoreWhat’s happening? The Florida legislature is currently considering two bills, HB 19 and SB 1528, that would open up the drug supply to drugs not inspected by the FDA and not protected by the Track and Trace system. As fake medicines made with fentanyl are flooding into America and in Florida, we cannot afford to weaken safety of the drug…
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