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Dan Burton: “The thing that is interesting is there are containers that are tamper-proof, and you just showed one of them there. But…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2003
The thing that is interesting is there are containers that are tamper-proof, and you just showed one of them there. But these 940-some production sites around the world that are FDA approved, they send these pills around the world in bulk, in huge containers, and it seems to me if there was any threat of sabotage or messing around with those, it would be in those bigger containers, not in a tamper-proof vial like that.
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Discussing the safety of pharmaceutical packaging and potential threats during a debate.

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