U.S. policymakers worry about China 'weaponizing' drug exports

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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

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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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80% of drugs contain substances manufactured in China. That’s the source of the toxin in Zantac, & it’s spread around among many drug manufacturers. Drugs are another product no longer manufactured in the US. Remember the dogs who were poisoned

When finances are 'weaponized' everyone is involved. It's sloppy business. Sanctions are punitive, trade wars are arrogant & foolish. It's not a proper way to manage business. Something Trump knows nothing of.

China can't even make toys and dog food that don't kill. And people take medicines made by them? THIS is the problem, folks. We have sold this country out to China for decades making us dependent on them. If that didn't happen, we wouldn't be having these discussions.

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'... about 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) used to make drugs in the United States are said to come from China and other countries like India.' Source: Council on Foreign Relations CBSNewYork

fentanylchina

Maybe Trump is dumb after all

China is playing chess and we are flushing our toilet 15 times.

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