One of the biggest national security threats in the U.S.-China trade war could be to the everyday medicines taken by millions of Americans
Gibson noted that a single factory in China made the active pharmaceutical ingredient for a common blood pressure medicine, valsartan, that was found to contain a cancer-causing chemical that has been used to make liquid rocket fuel.
When FDA inspectors visited Henan Lihua Pharmaceutical’s facilities in the city of Anyang two years ago, they found “significant deviations from current good manufacturing practice.”to speed up warehousing processes. Its parent company was also a generous recipient of Chinese subsidies for research, renovations and infrastructure last year.
The FDA estimates that 13 percent of the world’s API production facilities are in China, compared with 28 percent in the United States. About 26 percent are in the European Union and 18 percent in India. A high-profile group of senators, including Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Mitt Romney , this month called on Defense Secretary Mark Esper to examine the national security risks of U.S. dependence on imports of active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished drugs from China.
Generic drug companies believe critics such as Gibson and the U.S.-China Commission are overstating the risks. Last year, the U.S. imported $115 billion of finished pharmaceutical products, with just $1.5 billion coming from China. Zhu Jianyun, deputy secretary-general of the supply chain division at the China Association of Pharmaceutical Commerce, put the blame on manufacturing companies rather than U.S.-China policy.
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