Teva Pharmaceuticals recalled over 580,000 bottles of prazosin, a blood pressure and PTSD medication, due to contamination with cancer-causing nitrosamines. A 2025 study found generic drugs manufactured in India had 54.3 percent more serious adverse events than those made in advanced economies. The FDA inspects foreign drug manufacturing facilities less frequently and often with advance notice, unlike unannounced domestic inspections. Independent laboratories rather than regulatory agencies frequently discover dangerous contamination in medications. Patients and doctors have limited ability to identify where their generic drugs are manufactured or assess their quality. The prazosin recall echoes a pattern established years earlier when European regulators discovered in…

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