Is it worth our grandchildren's lives? I say to hell with the free trade agreement and WE TAKE AMERICA BACK! THIS IS OUR COUNTRY! I don't take any medications (otc or otherwise) since seeing the dateline report on the woman in st louis that was taking injections for cancer and it ended up being a liquid with no medication in it. She died and guess what....we still buy our medications from the same dang place....her medication was coming from another country as well...... our government should be spending a little bit more money on protecting our citizens and less money on a war in a country that doesn't appreciate our children being slaughtered for thier freedom!

I take several of these meds comming from china, I am very concerned because I take 2 heart medications and was on antibiocs also on this list.
I dont know why china? isnt the high prices for medicine because of the drug companies here in the U S , all you here is how much they do for us, and now we find out that china makes it....
i wonder how many people that work for the U S drug companies and there family take the drugs from china....food for thought...
Thank You for hearing a concerned person
Apryl

I take Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer. I had all my hair fall out within a month of taking the medicine as well as vomiting after eating certain foods.

thanks for the heads up

It is great that you have identified these drugs and a good suggestion that we talk to our Doctor. I identified four drugs on the list that I am currently taking, however, I was initially prescribed brand named medication and my insurance company will only pay for the generic drugs. Do you think they care about our concerns? How do we get around that?????

One easy first step just pass a law that requires the drug to say where it was manufactured and maybe where the ingrediants were sources from. Then consumers might start saying I will pay a bit more and the market would put some pressure on things. That would be a low cost first step at least. Maybe you would think a drug company would do it as a way to sell its drugs even.

This is outrageous!!! It was just a few short years ago that President Bush was in the news urging people not to buy their medicine from Canada, even though it was cheaper. President Bush stated that the government could not guarantee where it was made or its safety. Well apparantly he doesnt care!!! It should be against the law for these pharmaceutical companies to get rich at the expense of our safety and health. The safety of the American people should come first - not the huge profits these companies are making.

Isn't it ironic that the FDA made it illegal for us to purchase our prescriptions from other countries using the excuse that drugs from those countries were sub-standard and un-regulated, when drugs sold here are killing people!

Perhaps it is time to keep our jobs here at home and let our citizens produce the drugs their families and neighbors will be taking. We pay more than any other country for drugs made in our country and certainly more for drugs imported (in whole or part) than do people in the country of origin, so let's keep our money at home.

PS YOUR Captcha are VERY hard to read. The background interfers with the script.

This list is misleading at best. As a pharmacist I know that many of these medications are NOT made in China. Others are not sold in the US, and there are many spelling errors leaving me to guess what medications are being discussed. Also there are many different manufacturers for many of the above medications, one manufacturer may make the medication in China while another may make it in the US. And assuming that a brand name drug is safer than a generic is absurd, many of the generic drugs that I dispense are manufactured by brand name drug companies. KMOV didn't do all of their homework on yet another sensationalist story.

i was just recently told by humana that i could not get my mail order prescription from canada because it was not FDA approved and that is against there contract. i was inquiring to get it there because it cost 1/2 of what it cost in the us which might i add cost be $1000 with the big discount and this is for a psorisis ointment. i hope someones can finally put a stop to this joke called insurance these days it is robbing the american people of there right to stay healthy without being poor.

Maybe if the Chinese finally eventually kill enough of our pets or citizens or get enough toys loaded with lead in our country, our elected officials will do something about what is happening. You know the greed of the companies that are having their products manufactured in China are not going to do anything to reduce these large profits from Chinese products.

I also as a pharmacist am very concerned with this new posting by KMOV. They did a very poor job on their research. The could not even spell Amoxicillin correctly as well as a lot of other medications on the list. Going with the Rph post from above a pharmacy can buy generics from 2 to 10 different companies and KMOV did not list any specific details on the companies that have their medications made in China (why not). They just wanted to find a story to scare people, but did not want to do all of the work to make a complete story. Yes, I care that our drugs are safe, but before you put fear into people you should make sure to know what you are talking about.

JH, Pharm. D

I am very displeased with this story. Where did that generic list come from? First of all, some of the generics on that list are not even available yet, so how can we be importing them from China, when they are only available as brand name. Secondly, as some other pharmacists have said, there are many different generic companies that make drugs, so they should be more specific as to which company. I hate when news companies do stories like this because all they do is scare our patients, when really it is a very minimal chance that something like this happens. As for encourageing patients to take the brand, do you know how much brand drugs cost? Please do better research, or actually air more of the interview with the reputable source (meaning the Pharmacists).

Wow, some kind of classy journalism here. Might want to check facts on who makes what before claiming all such products are made in China. I know lots of folks locally that are involved in manufacturing some of these generic products IN THE AREA! I guess scaring people with half-truths helps boost ratings.

I'm a pharmacist for a local retail chain and I have been getting numerous calls from patients asking if their drugs come from China. I have to say that news channel 4 did not do any research on the list of drugs that they printed. First of all, some of the generic drugs listed are misspelled, and many of the generic names listed are not even available in the generic form. We've contacted GlaxoSmithKline on this matter and asked about some of the drugs on the list that belonged to them and they said that none of their drugs are made in China. They are either made in England or North Carolina. They will be getting a lawyer I'm sure.

Also, the generic drugs that are available are made by many different companies so which manufacturer is channel 4 referring to when they say it was made in China?

As a pharmacist, I'm very upset with the media creating mass panic once again on something that they never researched.

There are lots of typos here - do these come from the companies or loose editing?

I have been a viewer of News 4 for a very long time. I watched News 4 because I felt I could trust their reporting. Now having read the comments of pharmacists in response to your recent report I question this trust.
I feel News 4 owes it to their viewing public to require Russell or a more qualified reporter to follow up on these comments and give us facts not speculation. If the generic is not even available then it appears we are being misled or lied to.

Ok the Pharmacist are upset, who cares, American people should be told this info, this country is money hungry, we are not even the free people anymore, big business owns us all, they hire all these different countries and then they have access to all of us, this is ruining America,thank you KMOV for keeping those of us who want to hear the truth informed.

I think the pharmacists missed the point. The report did not say that all our medications were from China. The point is that some are, some are killing and injuring people and we have not been told that. Other products are labeled with country of origin and we can make an informed choice. We are not being given that opportunity with our medications. There wasn't anything wrong with the report, just your attitude. Stop being defensive and try being honest.

Thank you for your investigative report on "Made In China". My husband tried the Flector patch, had an adverse reaction, and now has an extremely high BUN level with potentially long term kidney consequences after just a few days.