Facts (from the FDA website)-
*Generic drugs are required to have the same active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and route of administration as the brand name product. Generic drugs do not need to contain the same inactive ingredients as the brand name product.
* The average difference in absorption into the body between the generic and the brand name was 3.5 percent[2]. Some generics were absorbed slightly more, some slightly less. This amount of difference would be expected and acceptable, whether for one batch of brand name drug tested against another batch of the same brand, or for a generic tested against a brand name drug. In fact, there have been studies in which brand name drugs were compared with themselves as well as with a generic. As a rule, the difference for the generic-to-brand comparison was about the same as the brand-to-brand comparison.
This is from the FDA website. There's plenty more B.S. on there to about generics. I'll give you the link. Even though it is not only boring, but deceitful and full of lies.
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesfo.../ucm167991.htm
Well, it looks like we are finding more critical , unethical, and dangerous practices or shall we say non-practices by the FDA, another major fu#k up!
Here's an excerpt from the article with a chart of 5 medications that had tainted data including tramadol and fentanyl, even ibuprofen.
FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
Remember this one:
Wellbutrin XL alongside the generic version Budeprion XL (Getty Images)
Was that one months or yrs before the FDA finally pulled Teva's Wellbutrin 300mg XL off of the market? Actually that one went on from 2006-2012 despite numerous patient complaints of purity and health issues. Once they started on the generic. Neither Teva, nor Impax Laboratories, which manufactures the pill, have admitted that there was anything wrong with the pills.
No Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn’t What it Seems
The FDA first defended the drug. In April 2008, the agency stated that Teva's generic was "bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to... Wellbutrin XL." The FDA even had the balls to dismiss complaints of ineffectiveness and side-effects as being consistent with the ups and downs of depression.
It's a dangerous and ugly situation when you live in a country; Where without health insurance generic medications are the only feasible way to get the medication you need and sometimes the generics are too expensive for many. The FDA is supposed to stand for the Federal Drug Agency. Instead their acronym is closer to the Fraudulent Dangerous Armamentarium. I used to believe that almost all generics would pass the potency tests. That the FDA were actually doing their M.F. job!, at least where purity in medications are concerned. Now when I buy an a new, affordable generic that finally comes out on the market (lexapro, wellbutrin XL). I really have serious concerns if it contains the bioequivalence of the name brand drug. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I may be taking!!!
Here are the links to the two articles:
http://www.propublica.org/article/fd...-on-the-market
http://www.propublica.org/article/no...-what-it-seems
*Generic drugs are required to have the same active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and route of administration as the brand name product. Generic drugs do not need to contain the same inactive ingredients as the brand name product.
* The average difference in absorption into the body between the generic and the brand name was 3.5 percent[2]. Some generics were absorbed slightly more, some slightly less. This amount of difference would be expected and acceptable, whether for one batch of brand name drug tested against another batch of the same brand, or for a generic tested against a brand name drug. In fact, there have been studies in which brand name drugs were compared with themselves as well as with a generic. As a rule, the difference for the generic-to-brand comparison was about the same as the brand-to-brand comparison.
This is from the FDA website. There's plenty more B.S. on there to about generics. I'll give you the link. Even though it is not only boring, but deceitful and full of lies.
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesfo.../ucm167991.htm
Well, it looks like we are finding more critical , unethical, and dangerous practices or shall we say non-practices by the FDA, another major fu#k up!
Here's an excerpt from the article with a chart of 5 medications that had tainted data including tramadol and fentanyl, even ibuprofen.
FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
Quote:
The health threat was potentially serious: About 100 drugs, including sophisticated chemotherapy compounds and addictive prescription painkillers, had been approved for sale in the United States at least in part on the strength of Cetero Houston's tainted tests. The vast majority, 81, were generic versions of brand-name drugs on which Cetero scientists had often run critical tests to determine whether the copies did, in fact, act the same in the body as the originals. For example, one of these generic drugs was ibuprofen, sold as gelatin capsules by one of the nation's largest grocery-store chains for months before the FDA received assurance they were safe. |
Remember this one:
Wellbutrin XL alongside the generic version Budeprion XL (Getty Images)
Was that one months or yrs before the FDA finally pulled Teva's Wellbutrin 300mg XL off of the market? Actually that one went on from 2006-2012 despite numerous patient complaints of purity and health issues. Once they started on the generic. Neither Teva, nor Impax Laboratories, which manufactures the pill, have admitted that there was anything wrong with the pills.
No Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn’t What it Seems
The FDA first defended the drug. In April 2008, the agency stated that Teva's generic was "bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to... Wellbutrin XL." The FDA even had the balls to dismiss complaints of ineffectiveness and side-effects as being consistent with the ups and downs of depression.
It's a dangerous and ugly situation when you live in a country; Where without health insurance generic medications are the only feasible way to get the medication you need and sometimes the generics are too expensive for many. The FDA is supposed to stand for the Federal Drug Agency. Instead their acronym is closer to the Fraudulent Dangerous Armamentarium. I used to believe that almost all generics would pass the potency tests. That the FDA were actually doing their M.F. job!, at least where purity in medications are concerned. Now when I buy an a new, affordable generic that finally comes out on the market (lexapro, wellbutrin XL). I really have serious concerns if it contains the bioequivalence of the name brand drug. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I may be taking!!!
Here are the links to the two articles:
http://www.propublica.org/article/fd...-on-the-market
http://www.propublica.org/article/no...-what-it-seems
via Social Anxiety Forum http://www.socialanxietysupport.com/forum/f30/fda-let-drugs-approved-on-fraudulent-research-stay-on-the-371137/
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