I say good on Illinois! The FDA’s “warning” on this matter is simply nonsensical. This is Canada, not Three Guys in a Trailer Labs. If Canadian pharmaceuticals (often made by the exact same factories that manufacture drugs for the USA market, or at least by the same corporations) cannot be trusted, then no pharmaceuticals can be trusted. The whole thing here is a question of greed, not quality. Lilly or Roche pharmaceuticals sold in Canada are in no reasonable way to be expected of lower quality than those sold in the USA.
It’s because Canada has price controls or whatever it’s called, on their drugs while in USA it’s a free reign for the pharmaceutical companies. They effecitvely have a ‘license to print money’.
The drugs sold in Canada/USA may well have been manufactured in the same factory but even if they weren’t, they both have the same ‘first world’ quality/purity.
Most drugs probably cost a couple cents per pill to make, yet the drug companies charge high prices, maybe $2 a pill in some cases. Yes, that’s “greed” all right.
But the “greed” is used to pay for the development of the drugs which can cost $1 billion per drug. Without being able to charge high prices in some places (in the unregulated US for example) there is less money made by the drug companies. Less Greed! Good! But of course, with less profits, there is less incentive (and money) to develop new drugs.
So the end result is that you can get a windfall now by forcing drug companies to sell pills cheaply via Canada. But don’t expect alot of new drugs to come out of the drug company pipeline. That greed is what pays people’s salaries and for research.