Gov’t agency exposed for allowing drugs from dangerous foreign factories into the US: Report

A new report claims that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration secretly allowed substandard foreign factories with dangerous manufacturing issues to ship hundreds of medications to the United States despite being officially banned by the agency.

In June, ProPublica reported that a group of individuals inside the Food and Drug Administration exempted drugs shipped to the U.S. from foreign factories despite the agency banning imports from certain factories due to contamination and other issues. The outlet noted that pills and other medications exempted from the bans were distributed to Americans and claimed that the agency did not regularly test the drugs for quality issues or track the medications to determine whether the medications were causing harm.