Why shortage of oxycodone?

Answer 1

The FDA is too picky about the manufacturing quality on the production lines at the plants, which is causing several weeks of delayed production. However they say it is their job to maintain quality and assurance for the american people. Should patients receive slightly mis-manufactured medicine w/ spelling errors on medicine or not receive medicine at ALL? I believe patients would rather have there medicine w/ a slight errors (i.e mis-prints on medicine), as long as it doesn't affect the medicine or their health, most patients probably wouldn't even notice. Plus the cost of ALL that medicine being thrown away is such as waste. The FDA is just trying to show the government that they are strongly needed so they don't get a budget cut, like the rest of the government workers out there. However the FDA is not solely to blame there is also the fact that the raw material make-up is also in shortage & medicare drove prices down, which affected the manufacturer budget to try and negotiate prices over seas. The Chinese would rather sell to Another Country with a higher budget compensation. Wouldn't you go with the highest bidder?