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Although the agency must inspect domestic drug plants once every two years, the investigators found that it inspected foreign drug plants at best once every 13 years.
By contrast, the F.D.A. inspects domestic drug plants every 2.7 years.
Of the 700 approved Chinese drug plants, the United States agency has inspected only 10 to 20 each year.
It would need to spend at least $15 million annually to inspect China's drug plants every two years, which is the domestic standard.
Although 80percentt of the nation's drug supply is now imported, the F.D.A. last year inspected only 30 of more than 3,000 foreign drug plants.
But like other manufacturing operations, drug plants have been moving to Asia because labor, construction, regulatory and environmental costs are lower there.
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I can remember neither the mission I am supposed to be on (something about reconnaissance on a drug plant), nor the cover story we invented.
Under withering questioning, Dr. Woodcock said that the F.D.A. would need another $225 million annually to inspect every foreign drug plant every other year, the frequency most say is needed.
Though he hears about drug plant import alerts, he rarely knows whether the drugs he works with were made down the street or on the other side of the world.
Table 1 presents the univariate analyses of factors associated with this form of drug planting.
Drug planting was found to be associated with numerous risk factors including syringe sharing and participation in government-run drug treatment programs.
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