Would you buy drugs from this country?

[tobagotwo]

More melamine in China's products. This time it's in baby formula.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7609734.stm

I don't believe the manufacturing culture in China is mature enough at this time to support health-critical products reliably. I'm not eager to buy drugs or foodstuffs from there, for me or my pets. Drug stores should be required to reveal country of origin for prescription medicines, same as is required of shirts and toasters...

Best wishes,

 

[netmiff]

More melamine in China's products. This time it's in baby formula.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7609734.stm

I don't believe the manufacturing culture in China is mature enough at this time to support health-critical products reliably. I'm not eager to buy drugs or foodstuffs from there, for me or my pets. Drug stores should be required to reveal country of origin for prescription medicines, same as is required of shirts and toasters...
Best wishes,

WELL STATED ! I also think that should extend to OTC medications, vitamins etc., in fact anything we put in or on our body

 

[ChouDoufu]

the problem here is counterfeiting, and the lack of enforcement of IPR. everything, and
that includes literally everything down to 10-cent widgets, gets copied and pirated
if it'll make a buck. creativity and originality and individualism is not rewarded here,
and the idea that a trademark or process or design can be 'owned' by someone is
a foreign concept. so no matter how stringently the original company adheres to
quality standards, there's always going to be some yahoo in the garage pumping
out fakes of whatever you're producing. which is why i can walk into any dvd store
and buy the latest hollywood blockbuster, sometimes a week before it hits theatres
in the states, for 50 cents. which may help explain why, after 5000 years of glorious
history, china is still a developing country, whose last contribution was the claimed
invention of the bristle toothbrush 800 years ago.