Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland

Tech.Luver notes an AP story on tainted pills that have arrived in the US from — not China this time — Puerto Rico. The article details a disturbing number of incidents of contamination investigated by the FDA over the last few years. "The first warning sign came when a sharp-eyed worker sorting pills noticed that the odd blue flecks dotting the finished drug capsules matched the paint on the factory doors. After the flecks were spotted again on the capsules, a blood-pressure medication called Diltiazem, the plant began placing covers over drugs in carts in its manufacturing areas. But the factory owner, Canadian drug maker Biovail Corp., never tried to find out whether past shipments of the drug were contaminated — or prevent future contamination, according to US regulators... FDA officials say the problems in Puerto Rico are proportionate with the large number of pharmaceutical plants here and generally no worse than those on the US mainland."

What a bunch of pansies

[SwordFishData]

A little paint never hurt anyone! When I was a child, paint was considered a delicacy! It was like getting a piece of plasterboard with a prize!

Re:What a bunch of pansies

[Red Flayer]

A little paint never hurt anyone! When I was a child, paint was considered a delicacy! It was like getting a piece of plasterboard with a prize!

I think the lead in that paint may have had more of an effect than you think.

Besides, when I was a young'un, the plasterboard would have been the prize. We had to make our own drywall from gypsum lumps and the paper we made by chewing up wasps nests and spitting out the eggs, larvae, and wasps to make pulp.

Revised options:

[BeeBeard]

1. You take the blue pill and the story ends.

2. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland, and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

3. You take the blue speckled pill and develop serious health issues.

Right.

[Nick Driver]

Besides, when I was a young'un, the plasterboard would have been the prize. We had to make our own drywall from gypsum lumps and the paper we made by chewing up wasps nests and spitting out the eggs, larvae, and wasps to make pulp.

Right.

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!

You can't tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.

Re:Aint Offshoring/Outsourcing Wonderful!!!

[tomhudson]

Got to love the rash of problems that are coming home from offshoring!

Hawaii called - they're a mite pissed with you.

... and also some people on a big island off the eastern shore, in the state of New York ...

Re:Article Mentions Problems in U.S. Also

[palegray.net]

Wait... foreign companies, producing drugs at American facilities, for sale in foreign countries, that are illegal to buy in America... my head hurts. I think I need some drugs.