Consumer Confidential: Where do your drugs come from? That's a big a question in the era of coronavirus
LOS ANGELES - As consumers worldwide adapt to life under the coronavirus, George Timek had what he thought was a perfectly reasonable question: Where is his medicine made?
We're not talking about anything fancy. Timek, 76, was shopping for acetaminophen at BJ's Wholesale Club and was curious about the country of origin.
He looked and looked. Nowhere did it say where the product was manufactured.
"Is this legal not showing country of origin on the bottle?" he asked me.
The answer is yes, although country of origin does have to be disclosed somewhere, possibly on the outer box, possibly online.
Be that as it may, tracking down what many people - especially now - might view as a crucial piece of information is much harder than it should be.
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