Critical shortages of the ADHD drug Adderall and the antibiotic amoxicillin have left families reeling as the medicines their loved ones need become harder to find.
of the ADHD drug Adderall and the antibiotic amoxicillin have left families reeling as the medicines their loved ones need become harder to find.
But according to experts, drug companies face few repercussions for not disclosing key information about the production of these medications, such as which third parties manufacture them, or where and how they are produced. In October, the FDA said Teva was continuing to experience "ongoing intermittent manufacturing delays," and that there was not yet sufficient supply from other manufacturers to meet U.S. market demand.
"The combination in rapid succession of the pandemic impact and consequent demand swings, manufacturing capacity constraints, scarcity of raw materials and the current energy crisis means we currently face a uniquely difficult situation," Bauman said. She did not addressAs the Covid pandemic bore down, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine convened a team of researchers, including Fox, to study the security of America’s medical product supply chain.
In 2020, Congress passed the Mitigating Emergency Drug Shortages Act, which aimed to address some of these issues. One requirement was that drug companies provide critical manufacturing data to the FDA. But the agency is not required toto the public — and Fox said the FDA has so far proved limited in its ability to enforce the act beyond naming companies that are not complying.
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