On the recordMay 20, 2003
The interesting thing, Chairman Burton, is that we cannot guarantee anything. You cannot guarantee that when you pull into a gas station and you fill your car up that that is in fact unleaded gasoline and not buttermilk. The truth of the matter is every time you put your key in your car, every time you do anything, you take a certain amount of risk. But with modern technology, we can make it absolutely as safe to buy drugs from Geneva, Switzerland, as it is to go down to your local pharmacy. As a matter of fact, the FDA has to admit that the only proven example where someone has tampered with prescription drugs in the United States happened inside the United States. There are no examples where contaminated drugs have been shipped from legal pharmacies in other parts of the world. There just are not any examples.
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