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Article: Momentum Growing For Effort To Legalize Drug Importation.
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- BIOWORLD Today
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- November 3, 2009
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Washington Editor
Pressure on the Bush administration to support some form of prescription drug importation continues to grow as more lawmakers take steps to legalize the practice.
This time around, the pressure is coming from Sen. Judd Gregg's office. Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, introduced legislation (referred to as the Safe Importing of Medical Products and Rx Therapies Act) that would allow Americans to import from Canada now, and from the European Union in three years.
Through a user-fee program that would be imposed on all businesses engaged in importation, Gregg believes the ...