FDA flags Dollar Tree for selling over-the-counter drugs made by companies with 'pattern of serious violations'

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Seriously: Don't buy your drugs from the Dollar Tree.

FDA issues a warning letter to Dollar Tree for allegedly selling drugs from foreign companies that have violated U.S. federal law.People walk by a Dollar Tree store on December 11, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.stocked over-the-counter drugs produced by Chinese companies with "a pattern of serious violations" of federal law on good manufacturing practices, the Food and Drug Administration said in a warning letter sent to the company Thursday.

The FDA analyzed import data and found Dollar Tree bought and received products from foreign companies that had received warning letters and had been placed on import alert for manufacturing issues. The agency also alleges that Greenbrier, operating as Dollar Tree, has used contract manufacturers and suppliers with "significant" violations for its private-label Assured Brand drugs.

"In this case, Dollar Tree has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that it does not sell potentially unsafe drugs and other FDA-regulated products to Americans," Donald Ashley, compliance director in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a statement. The FDA said it inspected Greenbrier's headquarters in January and its distribution warehouse after uncovering violations at multiple foreign drug companies that supplied the U.S. retailer, according to the warning letter.

 

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Made in China?

Heroin helps people

why because they are cheap, and pharmacy are worried that it reveal how much they actually make? greedy

I trust the FDA about as much as I trust the CDC. Zilch, zip, nada.

This today mold and who knows what that white stuff is poisoningus

Or your food

But Dollar Tree's under-the-counter drugs are just fine. 😎

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