China and India produce the critical ingredients for most antibiotics and other crucial medicines used for diabetes and high blood pressure.  Read this article from The New York Times which discusses the concerns and problems with using foreign plants to produce our medicines.

But now experts and lawmakers are growing more and more concerned that the nation is far too reliant on medicine from abroad, and they are calling for a law that would require that certain drugs be made or stockpiled in the United States.

“The lack of regulation around outsourcing is a blind spot that leaves room for supply disruptions, counterfeit medicines, even bioterrorism,” said Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, who has held hearings on the issue.

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