Canadian drug regulator Health Canada failed to stop pharmaceutical giant Apotex from importing suspect drug ingredients from one of its troubled manufacturing plants in India.
Instead, the potentially unsafe products were allowed into the country to be used in the making of generic blood pressure medications, antihistamines and other drugs for Canadian consumption.
It’s the latest example in an ongoing Star investigation that has found Health Canada so lax that it has allowed drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients into the country that are banned from the United States because the adulterated medications are potentially unsafe.
The drug ingredients in question in this most recent case came from an Apotex facility in Bangalore, India. In April, the U.S. drug regulator barred the importation of all but one product from the plant after its inspectors found Apotex staff had manipulated data, retested samples until they got favourable results and destroyed records. Apotex is a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto.
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Instead, the potentially unsafe products were allowed into the country to be used in the making of generic blood pressure medications, antihistamines and other drugs for Canadian consumption.
It’s the latest example in an ongoing Star investigation that has found Health Canada so lax that it has allowed drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients into the country that are banned from the United States because the adulterated medications are potentially unsafe.
The drug ingredients in question in this most recent case came from an Apotex facility in Bangalore, India. In April, the U.S. drug regulator barred the importation of all but one product from the plant after its inspectors found Apotex staff had manipulated data, retested samples until they got favourable results and destroyed records. Apotex is a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...lth_canada_cant_block_dodgy_drug_imports.html
