Thursday, March 26, 2020

Curbing China's Dominance of Medical Supplies

Speaking to journalist Sharyl Attkisson in an April 23, 2018, interview, Gibson warned: "What happens if we have a Fukushima type event or the trade routes are blocked in the South China Sea? Or if there's a global pandemic? And the United States and virtually every other country in the world is dependent on a few companies in China for the ingredients to make critical antibiotics."

Gibson provided a detailed picture of China's growing domination of the medical drug and equipment market in her 2018 book China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine.

China is now the global kingpin in the supply of key ingredients for many prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and supplements.

Your health is still in jeopardy because Communist China could choose to ban the export of your drug's active ingredient to Canada.

In China Rx, Gibson and Singh lay out the facts in how drug manufacturing has experienced a paradigm shift over several decades.

The Seattle Times in June 2007 reported, "In less than a decade, China has captured 90 percent of the U.S. market for vitamin C, driving almost everyone else out of business Chinese pharmaceutical companies also have taken over much of the world market in the production of antibiotics, analgesics, enzymes and primary amino acids. According to an industry group, China makes 70 percent of the world's penicillin, 50 percent of its aspirin and 35 percent of its acetaminophen, as well as the bulk of vitamins A, B12, C and E.".

In China Rx, Gibson also reveals that China is the main supplier of the active ingredients for acetaminophen and aspirin now used in over 600 prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/curbing_chinas_dominance_of_medical_supplies.html

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