Norvell Emerson: “first of all, because we are under such tight time constraints, I might add, and I understand the points that the…”

“first of all, because we are under such tight time constraints, I might add, and I understand the points that the gentleman from Michigan was making. But of course, let me also mention, and I'll submit this for the Record, that the foreign facilities inspected for approval by the Food and Drug Administration include those from 65 countries, and I'll name just a couple: China, Macau, Niue. I don't know if anybody here has heard of the country Niue. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know where Niue is. Russia, India and several other countries that at one point in time may have been questionable. I also want to point out to the gentleman, and I know that he must be aware, that 40 percent of all drugs that come into this country that we take on an everyday basis, whether it is cholesterol medicine like Lipitor, which is made in Ireland, or Prilosec, which is made in Sweden, all of these drugs are already imported into the United States. So how do we really know if these drugs that are sold by the brand name manufacturers actually have ingredients that are safe?”