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Just a quick heads-up on generic drugs manufactured by Ranbaxy
Double check who manufactures your generic pills before you take them and if the answer is Ranbaxy, run the other way. Seriously bad shit going on there
The manufacturer's name is usually on the label, but sometimes you may have to double-check with the pharmacy
First link is the story, 2nd link is the list of meds they ship to US. Fraud, fake data, lying, cheating and covering up their quality failures
http://features.blogs.fortune....nbaxy-fraud-lipitor/
http://fortunefeatures.files.w...ranbaxy-products.pdf
Note that there are several manufacturers for each generic drug, so if yours is on the list- it doesn't mean its bad UNLESS it comes from Ranbaxy
And if that isn't enough- here is a snippet of their executives talking about the crap AIDs meds they were selling in Africa
". .as the company prepared to resubmit its ARV data to WHO ( World Health Org), the company's HIV project manager reiterated the point of the company's new strategy in an e-mail, cc'ed to CEO Tempest. "We have been reasonably successful in keeping WHO from looking closely at the stability data in the past," the manager wrote, adding, "The last thing we want is to have another inspection at the Dewas plant until we fix all the process and validation issues once and for all."
. . .(Dinesh) Thakur knew the drugs weren't good. They had high impurities, degraded easily, and would be useless at best in hot, humid conditions. They would be taken by the world's poorest patients in sub-Saharan Africa, who had almost no medical infrastructure and no recourse for complaints. The injustice made him livid.
Ranbaxy executives didn't care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. "Who cares?" he said, according to Spreen. "It's just blacks dying."
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These guys should be in prison for life based on the shit they are pulling in India
Double check who manufactures your generic pills before you take them and if the answer is Ranbaxy, run the other way. Seriously bad shit going on there
The manufacturer's name is usually on the label, but sometimes you may have to double-check with the pharmacy
First link is the story, 2nd link is the list of meds they ship to US. Fraud, fake data, lying, cheating and covering up their quality failures
http://features.blogs.fortune....nbaxy-fraud-lipitor/
http://fortunefeatures.files.w...ranbaxy-products.pdf
Note that there are several manufacturers for each generic drug, so if yours is on the list- it doesn't mean its bad UNLESS it comes from Ranbaxy
And if that isn't enough- here is a snippet of their executives talking about the crap AIDs meds they were selling in Africa
". .as the company prepared to resubmit its ARV data to WHO ( World Health Org), the company's HIV project manager reiterated the point of the company's new strategy in an e-mail, cc'ed to CEO Tempest. "We have been reasonably successful in keeping WHO from looking closely at the stability data in the past," the manager wrote, adding, "The last thing we want is to have another inspection at the Dewas plant until we fix all the process and validation issues once and for all."
. . .(Dinesh) Thakur knew the drugs weren't good. They had high impurities, degraded easily, and would be useless at best in hot, humid conditions. They would be taken by the world's poorest patients in sub-Saharan Africa, who had almost no medical infrastructure and no recourse for complaints. The injustice made him livid.
Ranbaxy executives didn't care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. "Who cares?" he said, according to Spreen. "It's just blacks dying."
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These guys should be in prison for life based on the shit they are pulling in India
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