Why the FDA Is Worried About Chinese Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet

  • Inspections find deleted data, altered quality test records
  • Chinese companies supply ingredients to top brand drugmakers

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When FDA inspectors showed up at a Chinese company that supplies key ingredients to two of the U.S.’s biggest drug companies, a curious thing happened.

After lunch, they walked into a quality control lab on the second floor, where they saw a worker pull what looked like a memory stick from a computer and put it in the pocket of his lab coat. The inspectors asked to see what he’d taken.