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FDA Finally Seizes Milllions of Defective Pills

  • March 05, 2005

The FDA finally had enough. After warning GlaxoSmithKline for the last two years about quality control issues that were never addressed, they used armed federal marshals to seize millions of tablets of two medicines from facilities in Tennessee and Puerto Rico. The drugs are the antidepressant Paxil CR, which had $725 million in sales last year and is used by some 450,000 patients in the United States each month; and Avandamet, a diabetes medicine, whose sales are undisclosed but are far...