Fact check

Medications made at these facilities were linked to thousands of reported adverse reactions in patients. The bill aims to allow doctors and patients to see on the label exactly where a medication was made — details that had largely been…

generic drugs from foreign factories after inspectors had identified quality and safety lapses at the sites, including leaks, mold and contaminated water . Medications made at these facilities were linked to thousands of reported adverse…

requirement to include a unique facility identification number on labels, called a DUNS number, which would have allowed the public to more easily trace a generic drug and its active ingredients to the factories where they were made. In…

generic drug and its active ingredients to the factories where they were made. In some cases, that identifier could also be used to find FDA inspection reports that describe contamination and other safety breakdowns on factory floors. Read…

scores to specific versions of generic drugs and said the code would allow patients and doctors to easily find those scores while researching medication and their manufacturers. “Low-quality drugs have human consequences,” Gray said. Gray…

where medication was made and the safety records of those factories had been nearly impossible until now. Rx Inspector , the tool ProPublica introduced late last year, includes factory location information and inspection histories when…

factories. That code would have made it easier for researchers and the public to track the regulatory histories of specific facilities. The requirements also were supposed to take effect as early as a year after the bill’s passage.…

address was available, linking a drug to a particular facility became much harder, requiring a complicated process of automated address verification, geolocation and extensive manual review. Experts also worried about certain language in…