BOTTLES OF LIES RANBAXY & THE DARK SIDE

Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing—and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant, companies routinely falsify data, and executives circumvent almost every principle of safe manufacturing to minimize cost and maximize profit, confident in their ability to fool inspectors. Meanwhile, patients unwittingly consume medicine with unpredictable and dangerous effects.

The story of generic drugs is truly global. It connects middle America to China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, and represents the ultimate litmus test of globalization: what are the risks of moving drug manufacturing offshore, and are they worth the savings? 

A decade-long investigation with international sweep, high-stakes brinkmanship and big money at its core, Bottle of Lies reveals how the world’s greatest public-health innovation has become one of its most astonishing swindles.

 

Sticla de minciuni a lui Katherine Eban expune inselaciunea din spatele productiei de medicamente generice - si riscurile aferente pentru sanatatea globala. Bazandu-se pe conturi exclusive de la denuntatorii si autoritatile de reglementare, precum si pe mii de pagini de documente confidentiale ale FDA, Eban dezvaluie o industrie in care frauda este intensa, companiile falsifica in mod obisnuit datele si directorii eludeaza aproape fiecare principiu al fabricarii sigure pentru a minimiza costurile si a maximiza profitul, increzatori in capacitatea lor de a pacali inspectorii.