The Food and Drug Administration has warned three large pharmacies that they are violating federal law in making and distributing "thousands of doses" of their own versions of drugs used by asthmatics and others with respiratory ills.
The move addresses what the FDA says is a growing problem: Some pharmacies are mass-producing unapproved copies of brand-name drugs, for no proven medical reason, under less-stringent safety and sterility rules than the agency sets for drugmakers.
Steve Silverman, the FDA's acting assistant director of the office of compliance, says the agency expects the companies to either show they are filling legitimate medical needs or stop mass production.
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