Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

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that the use of or exposure to the identied products will cause either

adverse health consequences or death (Table I.3).

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To be fair, many of the FDA recalls are initiated by the pharmaceutical

drug companies as voluntary recalls through their own internal quality

control activities. Having said this, if I was a heart patient and received

nitroglycerin from Baxter, or if I had diabetes and used the blood glucose

test strips from Abbott, I would be very nervous.

In addition, during the past decade there has been rampant misuse

of pharmaceutical drugs, causing eye-popping numbers of fatalities. In

October 2013, there were mo ...