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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's scary knowing that most of our medicine is produced in China or India. Once we get into a conflict with China they could easily cut us from from lifesaving medicine, antibiotics, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Novo Nordisk is based in Denmark. 40% of their sales are from the US, so I guess they could pivot to European sales.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Isn't NN in the hormone business? Surely it helps, but it's Rather the staple of medicine that I'm worried about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think they are? At least here in Italy the pharmaceutical industry is very big

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Check out these slides: https://progenerika.de/app/uploads/2020/11/API-Study_long-version_EN.pdf

While Italy is indeed the largest supplier in Europe, the majority comes from Asia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

thank you for the data, really appreciated

looking to it, still doesn't seem that most comes from asia. Still more APIs in europe as stated in the data, not much more for sure but more. The fact that they have more manufacturers doesn't tell much other than it's easier to pop up manufacturers there.

The part about production share of a single API is something much more interesting and I bet we could find better data for most valuable APIs in EU somewhere in the european union papers about collapse.

P.S. obviously the best first thing to do would be reducing the need for drugs, like reducing meat consumption and bad animal conditions and then cleaning up the air reducing cars and keeping the numbers of renewables growing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Bringing back drug manufacturing is important for many reasons, but drug safety is high on that list too. Sterile products shouldn’t be made in a factory where workers are allowed to be barefoot. Drugs that fail microbiology quality tests shouldn’t simply be retested until they pass.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/barefoot-workers-bacteria-found-at-factory-that-made-big-brand-eye-drops/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I feel like the EU is finally taking some good steps, now that we can't rely on the USA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That's all very nice but a lot of the problem is linked to precursors (I'm not sure if it's the right term in English), chemicals required to produce drugs. Most of those are sourced in China (surprise), sometimes India (which is becoming a medical chemistry powerhouse, despite having a production ranging from the totally legit high end to the utterly worst of the counterfeit drugs containing shitall active ingredients (this part is also true for China of course).

Anyway a bit of the production is coming back to Europe (for some basic stuff, like paracetamol). But the local pharmaceutical companies aren't super eager from what I've read. They'd rather cruise along sell rights, and not have to deal with dirty stuff like actual pills. At least that's certainly that's what it feels like.

Note: I'm just a local, not at all plugged in the industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Looks like this wants to be Don't Dead Open Inside but I can't read the handwriting (is it just signatures?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think it's intended to look like illegible doctor's prescription handwriting