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Offshoring of Anti-flu Drug and Device Manufacturing Is Potential National Health Threat
Alan Tonelson
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Offshoring cripples swine flu response


Share of new TAMIFLU production for U.S. market expected to take place overseas: 80%

Number of U.S. government-approved swine flu vaccine manufacturers: 4

Number of these manufacturers producing the vaccine overseas: 3

Estimated share of anti-swine flu respirators made in China: 50%

Estimated share of surgical masks made overseas: 90%


Transcript, “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” CNN, October 21, 2009, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/21/ldt.01.html 9dIJsPn4U0

Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).
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