Bonus Episode: Pharma Police - Generic drugs and what the FDA is hiding

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ProPublica (an independent, non-profit news organization) recently reported on the FDA’s handling of potential safety issues concerning generic drugs we get from overseas manufacturers. Some of their findings include:

·     For decades, the FDA has blacked out the names of generic drugs on inspection reports for foreign factories that were found to have safety and quality violations. 

·     This has prevented patients, doctors, and pharmacists from knowing whether manufacturing failures have made medications ineffective or unsafe.

 You can find the ProPublica article here

(Recorded Nov 10, 2025)

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