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FDA shuts down 1,677 online pharmacies
The FDA said it has shut down 1,677 sites for selling counterfeit or substandard medication, or for selling drugs without appropriate safeguards. Other sites received regulatory warnings. Officials said they also arrested 58 people and seized more than $41 million worth of illegal medicines.
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This initiative was definitely not to protect us the consumers, but to protect the American pharmaceutical industry where identical drugs are priced 10-20x higher than Mexico or Canada. it's ridiculous.
The companies basically gamed the patent system and bribed enough judges to keep it going in the US.