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For more on this, I highly recommend Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban. Fantastically written book that goes deep on this topic and will absolutely horrify you about everything related to the manufacture of generic drugs.

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My mom was a hospital pharmacist when she was still working and was beating the drum on this all my life as far as I can remember. All it accomplished was getting her called racist and xenophobic and losing friends :(

Good for her - I'm just astounded that I didn't know any of this. Even the fact that generics only have to be within something like 20% of the active ingredient of the non-generic was surprising to me; I thought they were basically identical.

But the quality of manufacturing stuff is just unbelievable. You take for granted that our medications are highly regulated and it turns out to not be remotely true...

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