With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries.

“Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.

FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.

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  1. Don’t worry, thanks to Trump’s stupid tariffs we won’t be able to afford those drugs, anyway.

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  2. OF COURSE WE WILL HAVE A LOT LESS DRUGS, THEN Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will say "I TOLD YOU SO!"! This was Trump's plan all along! If he can't deport all the folks he doesn't like, he just kills them off ... And steal anything of value! That's why he LIED and cut funds to Medicaid! TRUMP IS GREEDY!!!

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  3. They are going to force us into submission to come crawling to them for crumbs and to compromise ourselves to be loyal to a fucking narcissistic asshole

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  4. Another JFKjr bias. He's drunk on power. So wrapped up in his psychotic opinion, real can't penetrate reason. Foreign pharma makers could have been poisoning us if they chose to moons ago. Ass takes down the safeguards and many of pharma mfgrs hating America, JFKjr is asking for trouble.

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  5. I take (as well as millions of others) the ever famous hydroxychloroquine which is used for RA & other autoimmune disorders. It’s produced in India. Great…,maybe we will all die

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  6. But there will be a new ballroom at the WH & the billionaires will have tax cuts…that’s important

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  7. Existing problems America has faced w.r.t foreign pharma production seem set to worsen thanks to Trump 😩

    I wish we were self-sufficient w.r.t medications. I wish I never saw our healthcare workers wearing trash bags during a pandemic.

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  8. I'm sure we're gonna cut way back on inspecting food as well. And inspections for product safety. Forget about recalls, like he said with covid- if you don't test you don't have cases... Watch for e coli increases, stuff in food that shouldn't be there. Time to reread The Jungle.

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  9. Of course not. The EU health officials are not changing anything. So any drug produced in the EU will of course gave the same safety standards. Probably better than the FDA standards.

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