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Barefoot workers, bacteria found at factory that made big-brand eye drops | Ars Technica
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This has been going on ever since pharmaceuticals were outsourced to India and China. This was done to reduce FDA oversight. The FDA is still allowed to enter these facilities as a condition of allowing imports but the cost of sending inspectors to the other side of the planet means that there is much less scrutiny.
If you want to want to be terrified of all medicine try reading this blog "warning letter of the week" where they find the most insane FDA warning letter issued every week to some pharmaceutical company:
https://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter%20of%20the%20week
Seems like capitalism working for the benefit of people as a whole.
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so does that mean that the EU is unaffected, or have we just been relying on the FDA to check factories?
No idea about China, but the Indian government relaxed a lot of safety rules during Covid so pharmaceutical companies could produce medicines as fast as possible. This has resulted in many companies making substandard or even harmful products.