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Ban
on Canadian drugs challenged
May 08, 2004 Associated Press
DENVER (AP) - An Oklahoma company that was shut down for helping
Americans buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada asked
a federal appeals court Friday to let it resume operations.
Rx
Depot Inc. also asked the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments in the case because
of the "significant public policy implications"
for the elderly and poor.
A federal judge in Oklahoma ordered
the company to close its 85 storefronts in November, ruling
it was violating a federal law that allows only manufacturers
to bring their drugs back into the United States.
The judge acted at the request of
the Food and Drug Administration. Government lawyers said
the company posed a public health risk.
Tulsa, Okla.-based Rx
Depot told the 10th Circuit the FDA did not prove it was
violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
The company accused the government
of enforcing the law selectively, saying other entities provide
the same services, including Web sites, companies that transport
people across the border to buy drugs and members of Congress
who help individual constituents get drugs in Canada.
The company, which operated in 25
states, had faxed prescriptions and patients' medical histories
to Canadian pharmacies, which then sent the drugs directly
to patients.
Government price controls in Canada
make medicines up to 50 per cent cheaper there than in the
United States
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