I thought this happened. Good afternoon everybody i want to welcome everyone to the finance Committee Oversight hearing the fda foreign drug manufacturing inspection process. And the taxpayers whether medicare or medicaid and second and the jurisdiction under trade with the responsibility that only Quality Pharmaceuticals that responsibility is heightened now that we are living through the covid pandemic whether were in the midst of a pandemic the supplychain and starting june of last year on this issue to secretary as are in the commissioner. I ask a series of questions related to manufacturing facilities overseas to file dosages for drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients and throughout the day also with the fda managing its inspection regime that says the fda does conduct some unannounced inspections on the frequency but the gao and 2019 that they estimated they generally provided 12 weeks of notice before the inspection for them to do their jobs and 12 weeks common sense tells me ther
Pain as the krona virus has led to massive layoffs and struggling businesses whats the plan for recovery we have expert analysis on hand to break it all down we have a packed show today so lets go and dive right in. And there are Big Questions surrounding badly needed medical supplies and facemask that are currently sitting in warehouses in china the u. S. State department claims that u. S. Bound face masks test kits and other medical equipment urgently needed to fight the corona virus is not leaving china thanks to new chinese export restrictions those supplies are supposed to either already be here in the United States or at least should be on their way and yet they are not according to the wall street Journal Health care equipment maker perkin elmer ank based in massachusetts is an able to ship 1400000 test kits for cope with 1000 the disease caused by the new corona virus from their sous out factory because it lacks certification required by the new rules and then there is 3 m. Cor
From their sous out factory because it lacks certification required by the new rules and then there is 3 m. Corporation based in minnesota which says that its and 95. 00 respirator masks are stuck in shanghai the claim from 3 m. Is that a shanghai vice mayor has told the company that lifting restrictions on distribution of Companies Mass would require instructions from beijing directly to joining us now to break this all down of boom bust cohost an investigative journalist ben swan so ben explain what these new restrictions are that are creating such a backlog of supplies yeah and brand is actually a couple of things that are happening 1st of all chinas National Medical Products Association and administration sees me as telling essentially companies that they cannot sin products medical products to the United States without to go through a certain level of checks and then double checks by that administration and essentially theyre saying you know everything has to be halted until it ca
A packed show today so lets go and dive right in. And there are Big Questions surrounding badly needed medical supplies and facemask that are currently sitting in warehouses in china the u. S. State department claims that u. S. Bound face mask test kits and other medical equipment urgently needed to fight the krona virus is not leaving china thanks to new chinese export restrictions those supplies are supposed to either already be here in the United States or at least should be on their way and yet they are not according to the wall street Journal Health care equipment maker perkin elmer egg based in massachusetts is unable to ship 1400000 test kits for co but 19 the disease caused by the new corona virus from their souse out factory because it lacks certification required by the new rules and then there is 3 m. Corporation based in minnesota which says that its and 95. 00 respirator masks are stuck in shanghai the claim from 3 m. Is that a shanghai vice mayor has told the company that
All down we have a packed show today so lets go and dive right in. And there are Big Questions surrounding badly needed medical supplies and facemask that are currently sitting in warehouses in china the u. S. State department claims that u. S. Bound face mask test kits and other medical equipment urgently needed to fight the corona virus is not leaving china thanks to new chinese export restrictions those supplies are supposed to either already be here in the United States or at least should be on their way and yet they are not according to the wall street Journal Health care equipment maker perkin elmer nk based in massachusetts is unable to ship 1400000 test kits for co but 19 the disease caused by the new corona virus from their souse out factory because it lacks certification required by the new rules and then there is 3 m. Corporation based in minnesota which says that its end 95. 00 respirator masks are stuck in shanghai. The claim from 3 m. Is that a shanghai vice mayor has tol