Lax system allows criminals to violate the Supply Chain

She had peace with the humiliation of chemotherapy: The balding and vomiting. And she had learned, cutting pain, broke out in waves during the phases of the end of their breast cancer. But the bones of deep fatigue, stretching over Maxine Blount was different and disturbing.

“I could not get out of bed. I was really tired, tired, exhausted,” she says.

Injections costly to rejuvenate it does not help.

“The girl’s Cancer suite”, as called Blount nurses, figured it out first, the memory of a visit to the warning on counterfeit medicines in circulation. It controls the remaining time to run a bottle of this set of four Blount, St. Charles, Mo., had bought in March 2002 in its pharmacy.

She took the wrong medicine.

Already, however small, Blount was a weakened version of Procrit, fighting fatigue and anemia. Testing confirmed their dose was one-twentieth of the force on the package - which was also packing faith statements that the health of deceiving the inspectors.

Blount died last October at the age of 61 that, if necessary, make the most of their Procrit she had received at least.

“You are very angry,” she said in an interview, one month before his death. “Do you have in your pharmacy and confidence in medicine, faith in the packaging and man, with l purchase, they know what they are doing. Well, if my medication I wonder where it is drawn. But what can I do?

“I need him. I owe you. And I’m afraid of, at any time.”

In an hour, more Americans rely on medication, their chances of getting the product is a fake, diluted or wrongly has never been greater.

Last summer, a drug wholesaler was forced to recall almost 200000 and counterfeit tablets of Lipitor wrongly complained that patients their medication tasted bitter. In May 2002, investigators discovered that nearly 110000 bottles of cut-strength Epogen had not in the open market. Over the past three years, falsified, altered or drugs were diluted in a large stock of drugs in Maryland, Kentucky and California. Some medicines were distributed in Hawaii, Texas, Washington, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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