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Counterfeit pills on social media are a stark reminder of how importation schemes could further threaten patient lives

By Gabby Migliara  |    July 6, 2022
Last month, as part of efforts to advance legislation reauthorizing the critical U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee agreements, the Senate HELP Committee included a dangerous proposal...   Read More

What they’re saying: Safety is top concern for recent drug importation proposal

By Nicole Longo  |    August 8, 2019
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released their “Safe Importation Action Plan,” which would allow importation of...   Read More

PhRMA CEO raises concerns with Florida importation proposal, highlights reforms needed to lower costs for patients

By Tiffany Haverly  |    May 8, 2019
PhRMA is committed to working with lawmakers to ensure patients can access and afford their medicines, but importation schemes that put patient safety at risk are the wrong approach. In a recent...   Read More

Look at the facts. Drug importation is dangerous.

By Nicole Longo  |    February 22, 2019
Today, 1 in 10 medicines worldwide and up to 50 percent of drugs consumed in developing nations are counterfeit. Importation proposals would open the U.S. borders to these dangerous and potentially...   Read More

ICYMI: Wall Street Journal highlights dangers of counterfeit medicines entering the United States through drug importation

By Nicole Longo  |    October 9, 2018
This week, the Wall Street Journal took a closer look at the very real threat drug importation poses, detailing how such schemes expose Americans to dangerous counterfeit medicines. The reporter put...   Read More

Former law enforcement officials raise concerns with drug importation proposals

By Nicole Longo  |    May 11, 2017
Time and again, proponents of drug importation schemes overlook the major impact such proposals would have on our law enforcement officers – the men and women who spend their lives protecting...   Read More

The risks of counterfeit imported medicines

By Allyson Funk  |    April 20, 2017
A recent Wall Street Journal article laid out the serious concerns posed by potent, counterfeit prescription opioids pouring into the United States from China, Mexico and Canada. The Drug Enforcement...   Read More

Case Study: How one online pharmacy knowingly endangered U.S. consumers

By Nicole Longo  |    March 2, 2017
We recently looked at what actually happens when a patient orders a medicine through an online Canadian pharmacy and how the product delivered may not be what the patient ordered. Today, we’re taking...   Read More

Why drug importation threatens patient safety

By Allyson Funk  |    February 28, 2017
Counterfeit drug manufacturing and trafficking is a multi-billion dollar business. Legislative proposals to allow importation of potentially counterfeit and substandard drugs into the United States...   Read More

Fact Check Friday: The truth about drug importation and patient safety

By Allyson Funk  |    February 24, 2017
This week on Fact Check Friday, we’re discussing the truth about proposals to allow the importation of medicines from other countries and what these proposals mean for patients. MYTH: Importation is...   Read More

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