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Export Provisions of the Food and Drug Act This

Export Provisions of the Food and Drug Act

This paper will discuss some aspects of the laws concerning the export of non-approved drugs by U.S. manufacturers to European countries. The first part will provide a brief background to the issue, describing the development of the modern pharmaceutical industry and exports. The second part of the paper will discuss some of the most important business issue involved in the export of drugs. The third part of the paper will consider some of the important ethical issues concerning the export of drugs. The fourth part of the paper will examine the U.S. laws and international agreements governing the export of drugs developed in the U.S. The conclusion will consider the future of drug exports and some possible approaches to the problems.

Background of the Development and Export of Drugs

The modern pharmaceutical industry is a fairly recent development. Until the Twentieth Century, the process of drug innovation and development was a fairly haphazard affair. New drugs were tested instantly upon human patients and few had any beneficial effect. In fact, all too often the new drug hastened the death of the patient. In the mid-Nineteenth Century, researchers started having some success in separating the effective agents from their parent compounds and began to discover why certain agents were effective and others were not. Synthetic drugs were introduced during this time, the most important being anesthetics and painkillers. The major breakthrough in drug development came in the 1930s, when sulfanilamide, the first of the "wonder drugs," was introduced in France. Companies in other developed countries quickly stepped up their research efforts and competition was fierce in the development of other sulfa-drugs and antibiotics. Molecular manipulation techniques were perfected and new drugs began to deluge the world markets in the 1950s.

Characterization of the drug industry h...

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