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| Phoney Lipitor Busted |
| 2005-02-01 |
| A year and a half ago, Pfizer Inc. got a disturbing call on its customer hotline. A woman who had been taking its cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor complained that a new bottle of tablets tasted bitter. She sent the suspicious pills to the company, which tested them at a lab in Groton, Conn. The white oblong tablets looked just like the real thing -- and even contained some of the active ingredient in Lipitor. But Pfizer soon determined that they were counterfeits. Over the next two months, distributors yanked some 16.5 million tablets from warehouses and pharmacy shelves nationwide... The rest of the article is about recent, large scale counterfeits in general. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 Prolly because it proves what Bush said. Can't let that happen. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-02-01 6:10:55 PM |
| #1 Hmm, these counterfeit pills apparently got into the regular & supposedly FDA-approved supply line. Apparently the contamination was on a very wide scale. What about these incredibly dangerous illegally imported Canadian drugs that senior citizens are bringing back in their luggage? This situation indicates a very real possibility of poisons or infectious agents into drugs and having them distributed to millions of people. This should be, but isn't, front page news, both on Rantburg and in the MSM. |
| Posted by: Ebbavith Angang9747 2005-02-01 6:05:57 PM |