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Bottle of lies : the inside story of the generic drug boom / Katherine Eban.

by Eban, Katherine.

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Generic drugs -- Quality control.

Drugs -- Generic substitution.

Drugs -- Analysis

Drug adulteration.

9780062338785 (hc.)

xxiv, 482 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Shifting ground -- II. India rises -- III. A cat-and-mouse- business -- IV. Making a case -- V. Detectives in the dark --VI. The watershed -- VII. Reckonings.

"Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing - and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant, companies routinely falsify data, and executives circumvent almost every principle of safe manufacturing to minimize cost and maximize profit, confident in their ability to fool inspectors. Meanwhile, patients unwittingly consume medicine with unpredictable and dangerous effects. The story of generic drugs is truly global. It connects middle America to China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, and represents the ultimate litmus test of globalization: what are the risks of moving drug manufacturing offshore, and are they worth the savings?"--From publisher.

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