{"id":6530,"date":"2017-04-19T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:06:17","slug":"importing-fda-non-approved-drugs-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6530","title":{"rendered":"Importing FDA Non-approved Drugs Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 introduced legislation that would allow Americans and pharmacies to import medicines not approved by the FDA from foreign countries through and including Canada; however, are these medications imported from outside the FDA\u2019s jurisdiction safe for consumers? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearhealth.com\/articles\/2017\/04\/19\/canada_cannot_be_americas_drugstore_110556.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=50922179&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-82XlMP8oCPqHX3zsUiwkG8dUF9s-u8RvaJ-naA4L8qOoeHB9i29PSokpI09aJZ5HwT6Of3IUOlItvcmdmVdsDF6iK6DQ&amp;_hsmi=50922179\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 introduced legislation that would allow Americans and pharmacies to import medicines not approved by the FDA from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}