[Pharm-policy] US Senate votes 74-21 to end ban on parallel imports

[James Love]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/072000senate-spend.html

July 20, 2000


Bill Would Lift Ban on Import of U.S. Drugs

By STEVEN A. HOLMES and ROBERT PEAR

         WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The Senate today overwhelming voted to
permit pharmacies and wholesale distributors of prescription drugs to
import and sell American-made medicine that originally had been exported
to foreign countries. 

         But in voting 74 to 21 to overturn the ban on such imports, the
lawmakers also unanimously adopted an amendment requiring the Food and
Drug Administration to certify that the action would pose no risk to
public health and safety and would significantly reduce costs to
consumers. 

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