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Fort Report: Are Our Drugs Safe?

Drug Administration (FDA) gets on inspection of our drugs, according to the director of health care at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The GAO recently conducted an extensive study on the safety of our drug supply and discovered that FDA is failing to inspect drug manufacturing facilities overseas. Some facilities have not been inspected for five years or more. Some have never been inspected.

“This is fascinatingly scary,” one Nebraskan told me after my questions as Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and...

 

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