Taking Away Your Pills
Examining the Varied Blueprint for Pharmaceutical Recall and Withdrawl
16 June 2007
Product recalls are an accepted phenomenon of American commerce. Companies routinely issue public alerts to make consumers aware of defects in manufactured goods that become known through marketing surveillance. They remedy the problem by either replacing the faulty part, or if a fix is not possible, withdrawing the product entirely from the marketplace. The expectation is that the manufacturer is proactively looking out for the safety of its consumers. This process can be more complicated in the pharmaceutical industry because of the time and expense of developing and testing drugs , the difficulty in isolating a direct link to the problem from the drug in question, and in high profile cases lapses in ethical judgment regarding the safety of patients, clouded by the magnitude of lost potential revenue. In addition, with branded prescription pharmaceuticals,......
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