Veering slightly off-topic
but I was a community pharmacist until recently (now no longer working with the general public, thank fuck).
About fifteen years ago, the company I was doing locum work with were getting a lot of parallel import drugs. Put simply, these are 'foreign' packs of drugs with labelling in English stuck on top of them. The drugs themselves are made to the same standards (sometimes in the same place) as the 'UK' ones, but they're cheaper to obtain from the wholesaler. [There's a whole different discussion to be had about why that is, but it can probably be boiled down to convoluted drug company profiteering.]
Anyway, a patient handed me a prescription for pravastatin. It was still under patent, so Lipostat was the only brand available. We only had the PI packs in stock, which were made in France. He made a point of asking if we had the British pack, because he didn't want to take any foreign medicine - "you wouldn't trust their food, so why should you trust their drugs?"
To keep him happy, I phoned the wholesaler and ordered him two UK packs of Lipostat. Which were made in Portugal.
If he was still alive in 2016, I think I can guess how he voted.
(, Thu 10 Dec 2020, 8:18, Reply)