tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 1

PHARMACEUTICALS: FDA Stalled By Red Tape As Illegal Rx Market Booms

Limited data constricts FDA's quality control efforts over unlawful imports.The volume of prescription drugs illegally imported into the United States is huge--and increasing. Despite the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to encourage mail facilities' practices of detecting and destroying packages that contain illegally imported prescription drugs, many of those packages still make their way into addressees' hands.The large volume of such packages has "strained limited federal resources" at mail facilities, which has hurt federal enforcement of laws against personal prescription-drug importation into the United States, a Nov. 10 Government Accountability Office report reveals. Making matters worse, the...

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