{"id":24714,"date":"2019-09-19T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24714"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T00:03:46","slug":"are-you-getting-a-side-of-cancer-with-your-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24714","title":{"rendered":"Are you getting a side of cancer with your &#8220;medicine&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Can_You_Trust_Drugs.jpg\" alt=\"Are you getting a side of cancer with your &quot;medicine&quot;?\" class=\"wp-image-24715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Can_You_Trust_Drugs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Can_You_Trust_Drugs-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S: \u201cAt least 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients for all drugs are made in Chinese and Indian factories that U.S. pharmaceutical companies never have to identify to patients, using raw materials whose sources the pharmaceutical companies don\u2019t know much about. The FDA checks less than 1% of drugs for impurities or potency before letting them into the country.\u201d Even if an FDA inspector visits the factory and finds irregularities or contamination, it\u2019s likely that nothing will be done about it. This is a pretty damning article from Bloomberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2019-09-12\/how-carcinogen-tainted-generic-drug-valsartan-got-past-the-fda\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2019-09-12\/how-carcinogen-tainted-generic-drug-valsartan-got-past-the-fda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S: \u201cAt least 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients for all drugs are made in Chinese and Indian factories that U.S. pharmaceutical companies never have to identify to patients, using raw materials whose sources the pharmaceutical companies don\u2019t know much about. The FDA checks less &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are you getting a side of cancer with your &#8220;medicine&#8221;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24716,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions\/24716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}