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b'The U.S. likes to tell consumers that generic drugs are just as safe and effective as their brand-name counterparts. But are they?Professor Tinglong Dai discusses a current cancer drug shortage that was caused by a deplorable foreign manufacturing facility that stopped exporting chemotherapy drugs to the U.S. after an\\xa0\\xa0inspection that revealed "a cascade of failures."\\xa0But it could be worse \\u2014 4 Americans have died and 8 have been blinded after using generic eyedrops made in a foreign facility that was never inspected by the\\xa0. In 2022, the\\xa0\\xa0inspected only 6% of the nearly 3,000 foreign drug manufacturing facilities.\\xa0America relies on these facilities for most of our prescription drugs.

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