China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine [Hardcover]

A must-read for everyone who takes, makes, regulates, or sells a prescription drug or an over-the-counter medicine. China Rx is a heroic and critical exploration into one of the greatest threats to both our national and health securities. China literally holds the health of much of the world in its business-driven hands. This is scarier than a Stephen King novel.Michael T. Osterholm, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota, and author of Deadliest Enemy: Our War against Killer Germs?In this alarming expos?, Gibson and Singh explain why the fact that the U.S. no longer makes penicillin and China supplies most of the ingredients in todays prescription drugs is such a big problem and a threat to national security.... Readers will want to do more due diligence on the provenance of the drugs in their home medicine cabinets.BooklistChina Rx describes a major threat to the strategic position of the United States in the world, a matter affecting this countrys health and its economic and social well-being. This book reveals how the loss of the manufacturing capability and control of the supply of critical medicines, and their component ingredients, endangers the medical future of the American public while also posing a serious threat to our economy as well. The authors prescribe what must be done to remedy this major deficiency in our nations public health infrastructure.Edwin Meese III, 75th United States attorney general?China Rx exposes the scary truth that a great number of prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines in the United States have ingredients from China. There should be tougher import standards, a requirement for pharmaceutical companies to label a drugs origins, and a reversal of US dependence on China.Jim Guest, former president, Consumer ReportsEveryone who has ever taken a pill needs to read this book. The American people wont be happy when they find out that many of the medicines they rely on are being made in China where regulal³"