Prognosis
US Military Is So Worried About Drug Safety It Wants to Test Widely Used Medicines
- Defense officials look to Valisure to test prescription drugs
- Effort is part of trend to combat shoddy production overseas
US military officials are so concerned about the quality of generic drugs that the Department of Defense is devising a program to test the safety of widely used medicines.
Defense officials are in talks with Valisure, an independent lab, to test the quality and safety of generic drugs it purchases for millions of military members and their families, according to several people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named as the details aren’t public.