Myth: The Food and Drug Administration has no written rules or criteria to determine if a generic drug is as good as a brand name product.Fact: The FDA has required generic drugs to be “bioequivalent” to name brands since the mid-1970s. (www.worstpills.org/public/myths.cfm)
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