Officials fear the sites could be selling adulterated drugs and are concerned that the pills are being stockpiled by people who don't need them at a time when the drug supply is tight.
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The pharmaceutical company has repeatedly said that it had no reason to suspect Courtney was adulterating drugs before May 2001, when its sales representative, Darryl Ashley, approached oncologist Verda Hunter about Courtney's sales numbers.
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"I agree we need to control the cost of prescription drugs to seniors, " said Rep . David Obey, D-Wis . " But we should not run the risk of allowing large numbers of adulterated drugs into this country ."
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But two senior members of the House, Thomas J . Bliley Jr ., Republican of Virginia, and John D . Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, said the legislation increased the likelihood that counterfeit or adulterated drugs would enter the United States.
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Still, two senior members of the House, Thomas J . Bliley Jr ., Republican of Virginia, and John D . Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, said the legislation increased the likelihood that counterfeit or adulterated drugs would enter the United States.
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While Courtney is being held on a single charge of adulterating and misbranding, a grand jury that prosecutors plan to convene may bring additional counts, including separate charges for each act of adulterating drugs, fraud and product tampering, Porter said.
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In addition, it said, federal officials often do not reinspect the foreign companies to see whether they have corrected deficiencies, and " this impairs FDA's ability to insure that American consumers are protected from potentially serious health risks posed by adulterated drug products ."
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In a sworn statement, Thomas, 32, told attorneys for infected former patients that he used a syringe to withdraw narcotics from vials and that he replaced the stolen drugs with a saline solution to disguise his activities; adulterated drugs were administered to an undetermined number of patients.
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In the 2010 settlement SB Pharmco pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and agreed to pay $ 150 million in a criminal fine and forfeiture, at that time the largest such payment ever by a manufacturer of adulterated drugs, and $ 600 million in civil penalties to settle the civil lawsuit.
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Many U . S . regulatory operations _ from those designed to prevent unsanitary meat packing plants and adulterated drugs at the turn of the century to those put in place in the 1960s in response to unsafe cars _ were created to address social concerns and before global trade was so important.
