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In this story, I learned that generic drugs are never exactly the same: http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/

This company was fraudulently claiming that the drug profile of their generics was identical. Thanks to a whistle-blower the company was fined $500m by the FDA, after years of legal wranglings.

More background: https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-let-drugs-approved-on...




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