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Just Published 'The COVID-19 Supply Chain: Fact not Fiction'

Just Published 'The COVID-19 Supply Chain: Fact not Fiction'

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THE COVID-19 SUPPLY CHAIN: Fact not Fiction

“Pharmaceutical supply chains produce and deliver the drugs that enter your body. If anything goes wrong at any stage of production or distribution, it can result in patient disablement, or even death. That was evidenced in late 2007, when reports of unexpected allergic-type reactions in patients undergoing dialysis began to land on regulatory authority desks. Investigation revealed that the blood thinning agent, heparin, was the culprit. The manufacturer had purchased material from China where one of the raw materials had been illegally substituted for a much cheaper material, which had a toxic effect on the dialysis patients. Deaths and serious adverse events resulted (references in the book).

This is just one example of the dangerous and deadly-serious supply chain issues that the industry created for itself, by moving to low-cost sourcing from China, India and other Eastern countries. To make matters worse, Big …

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