Pfizer Moves to Try to Stop Drugs From Canada
Pfizer is stepping up its efforts to stop exports of low-price prescription drugs from Canada to the United States by imposing new restrictions on sales to Canadian drug wholesalers.
In a letter to Canadian retail pharmacies, Pfizer said that it would immediately require wholesale distributors to report past and present orders of Pfizer products from individual drugstores.
"Under Pfizer's new sales policy," the letter says, "distributors will only be authorized to deal with approved purchasers of Pfizer products."
Online and mail-order drugstores in Canada supply prescription drugs to an estimated one million Americans. Drugs are significantly cheaper in Canada because of government price controls.
Although drug imports are banned under United States law, the Food and Drug Administration has the discretion to allow small amounts to be imported for personal use. A growing number of states and municipalities have called for the ban to be eased so they can lower drug costs for their employees.
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