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The People's Pharmacy

Show 1131: Was Your Medicine Made in China?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5934 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Do you know where your medicines come from? It can actually be something of a challenge to find out, because unlike shirts or apples, drugs do not have to be labeled with country of origin. As it turns out, over the past two decades, the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry has followed the same route as many […]

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0:00.0

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0:34.0

Do you know where your medicines are made?

0:37.0

Increasingly, Americans rely on OTC and prescription drugs from China.

0:42.0

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.

0:47.0

Last month drug regulators around the world issued recalls for a heart

0:57.9

medication called Bel-Sartan. A Chinese company had produced a

1:01.6

contaminated ingredient for some generic drug makers.

1:05.3

Does this recall have wider implications?

1:08.0

Rosemary Gibson thinks so.

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We have a ticking time bomb.

1:11.6

And I think with this Valsartan question we have to ask what else is going

1:15.1

on that we don't know about.

1:17.2

The author of China RX is raising questions about our heavy reliance on China for key medications.

1:24.0

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we discuss how changes in drug manufacturing could affect your health.

1:30.0

First, the news.

1:37.0

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Staten medications to lower cholesterol are a main stay of treatment to prevent heart disease.

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