Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs

Threat in your medicine cabinet: The FDA’s gamble on America’s drugs

The FDA didn’t routinely test the medications for quality problems or use its vast repository of drug-related complaints to proactively track whether they were harming the people who relied on them.

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs

For a dozen years, the agency has quietly given foreign factories that violated critical standards in drugmaking continued access to the U.S. market.