Canadian pharmacies safe

June 17, 2004

Despite the current controversy on importing medications, it seems a recent report has observed that Canadian pharmacies are pretty safe. In fact, some have stricter standards than US-based pharmacies:

Despite safety concerns voiced by opponents of prescription drug imports, congressional investigators said they encountered few problems with medicines purchased from Canadian Web sites.

In some instances, Canadian online pharmacies had stricter standards than those in the United States, according to the report released Thursday by the General Accounting Office.



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