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- Claverhouse, on 02/09/2009, -1/+30The headline is utterly misleading. The article does not single out Sweden for blame, but shows that Swedish reseachers bothered to discover that drugs consumed in Sweden were causing environmental problems where they were made. It is impossible to imagine that every other country doesn't import these drugs just as much.
The probable solution is for drugs to be made in 1st world countries with stricter rules, until such time as India and China etc. enforced better house-keeping; but a/ that would make them more expensive. b/ the globalists and liberals would shriek their heads off, for overtly different reasons. - bincoder, on 02/07/2009, -6/+28Why don't India and China regulate the factories?
It isn't like the swiss drug companies have ICBMs pointed at them offshore.
Any business or person in China is owned by China.
If they aren't protecting their own people and regulating the foreigners, its because they don't want to. I would worry more about what comes out of these countries than what is left behind. A little melamine anyone? - Rogor, on 02/09/2009, -1/+20The title is misleading, the article actually says that Swedish pharmaceutical companies are buying substances from Indian companies who dont adequately treat their wastewater. So why not mention the Indian companies involved and stop trying to lay guilt trips across entire countries.
- oriondr, on 02/09/2009, -1/+10Swiss = Switzerland
Swedish = Sweden
I know it's confusing. - fasda, on 02/09/2009, -2/+9No China does not own businesses that operate there. Despite what you have heard China is not a communist economey in fact China's economey is more capitalistic then pretty much anywhere else in the world because there are very few rules for businesses in china.
- nitrojunky24, on 02/09/2009, -0/+5this title is so ***** misleading it not Swedish drug companies simply drugs sold in Sweden and in many other countries as well I'm sure they just did the research. it never actually mentions what country runs these companies in the article wouldn't be surprised if they were locally owned in india.
- daonlyfreez, on 02/09/2009, -3/+6I have the right to sue them?
Wow.
So if I'm a poor peasant living downstream in rural India, I can use all my life-savings to try to win a legal battle with a company that has a multitude of money compared to me?
Just wow. I never thought that capitalism could be such a fair system.
I know about capitalism, I even support it. I however do not support externalizing (privatize the profits, socialize the losses). That's a whole different ballpark. - ryesmall, on 02/09/2009, -1/+4The most interesteing aspect FTA:
"Joakim Larsson has visited the industrial zone near Hyderabad, India, an important centre for the manufacturing of pharmaceutical substances. Here his research team has taken samples of the water discharged from a treatment plant that treats wastewater from around 90 pharmaceutical factories before it is released.
”We have previously shown that the "treated" water contained exceptionally high levels of various pharmaceutical substances, including several broad-spectrum antibiotics. We estimated that the treatment plant released 45 kilograms of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin in one day, which is equivalent to five times the daily consumption of Sweden,” says Larsson.
Such high levels of antibiotics in the water are a cause for alarm as there is an increased risk of spawning resistant bacteria, an issue of global concern. This can lead to those antibiotics that are invaluable today becoming ineffective sooner and not killing the bacteria of tomorrow."
Releasing the anti-biotics into the wild will basically void some of the medicines we have today to fight bacteria. Thanks dip**** for the malfeasance! You couldn't at least check to see if your by-products of production were linked to the water streams?
No? Way to go! - chkdg8, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3Bayer's HIV infected Blood Products: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFDOWIl7Nw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#HIV_infected_Bl ...
Sorry for the double post. - Spoomeister, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3Good. Serves them right. This is what they get for providing cheap labor w/ no health benefits, living wage, or other necessities for their citizens, let alone the effect that their cheap labor has had on world markets.
- bunk3rk1ng, on 02/09/2009, -0/+2Corporate responsibility? What is that? Haha. As long as I wish companies would do the right thing, if there is no law banning what they are doing, then it is perfectly legal and they probably won't stop dumping antibiotics until it does become illegal. China and India need to step up.
- bluesman3535, on 02/09/2009, -0/+2It's not the consumers' fault that these countries don't care about their local populations.
- chkdg8, on 02/09/2009, -1/+3So, what else is new about drug companies?
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -1/+3Misleading. As. *****.
- twoblink, on 02/09/2009, -0/+2China and India don't need the Swede's help poisoning their own people. China makes buns out of cardboard, and I won't even get to their infant formulas. As for India, taking anything is probably safer than drinking the water there..
- bjornski, on 02/09/2009, -1/+3And just think. Our economy will recover once our working conditions more closely match theirs.
Wont that be great? - viraj86, on 02/07/2009, -4/+5Thanks d2002 for bringing Indian plight into focus
- bunk3rk1ng, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1It would cost more money. Goods from China would be more expenisive, so people would buy less of them.
- 1to1, on 02/08/2009, -4/+5Digg it for Good cause....
- Laug32bit, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1"as there is an increased risk of spawning resistant bacteria, an issue of global concern". You missed that part?
- Ymeg, on 02/09/2009, -2/+3You have the right to sue if they harm you.
You seem ignorant of capitalism. - fasda, on 02/09/2009, -1/+2Lots f drugs are made in the 1st world what do you think comes out of all those chemical plants in New Jersey?
- davepres, on 02/09/2009, -1/+2Are the Swedish so stupid as to thing that new drug resistant strains will only affect China? In todays small world an resistant bugs will be on you in a heartbeat. This is so ignorant
- luckyscs, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1Shh! Let them do the work for us.
- mahadiga, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1The tragedy is rarely we see WIN-WIN proposition in International relations.
- AlienMushroom, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1No. Local governments are owned by profit. Virtually no business in China is owned by the government.
- spoon088, on 02/09/2009, -3/+4That tactic doesn't work anymore, quit trying to draw sympathy when all the Jewish ***** as been exposed.
- Schmich, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1Both countries are neutral making it even more confusing.
- bjornski, on 02/09/2009, -1/+2Sad, but true.
*twitch* - RiceLee22, on 02/11/2009, -0/+0The buns made from cardboard was revealed as a Japanese lie, apparently.
The infant formulas still contains melamine. - nitrojunky24, on 02/09/2009, -1/+1you're an idiot wal-mart is not the only place that sells stuff made in china. most places do just look at the tags for most of the stuff in your house.
- bjornski, on 02/09/2009, -2/+2LOL!
Yeah, right. Like that will happen. - Chairboy, on 02/09/2009, -1/+1Yes, bury me, my pretties! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
- jsdratm, on 02/09/2009, -9/+8The Swedes act so nice and innocent, but they are secretly destroying the world. It is a conspiracy!
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -2/+1would make for an interesting movie villain. bad guy owns drug company that ships to certain countries, but he poisons the batch that they send to the countries of their choice. then they blame it on the other countries. or whatever, i dono, i give up. im sure james bond has done it.
- bjornski, on 02/09/2009, -3/+2Yeah! You can just sue! That'll fix everything!
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcg ...
Oh wait...
"In a settlement mediated by the Indian Supreme Court, UCC accepted moral responsibility and agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government to be distributed to claimants as a full and final settlement. The figure was partly based on the disputed claim that only 3000 people died and 102,000 suffered permanent disabilities [9]. Upon announcing this settlement, shares of UCC rose $2 per share or 7% in value [1]. Had compensation in Bhopal been paid at the same rate that asbestosis victims where being awarded in US courts by defendant including UCC – which mined asbestos from 1963 to 1985 – the liability would have been greater than the $10 billion the company was worth and insured for in 1984 [10]. By the end of October 2003, according to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, compensation had been awarded to 554,895 people for injuries received and 15,310 survivors of those killed. The average amount to families of the dead was $2,200 [9].
At every turn, UCC has attempted to manipulate, obfuscate and withhold scientific data to the detriment of victims. Even to this date, the company has not stated exactly what was in the toxic cloud that enveloped the city on that December night [8]. When MIC is exposed to 200° heat, it forms degraded MIC that contains the more deadly hydrogen cyanide (HCN). There was clear evidence that the storage tank temperature did reach this level in the disaster. The cherry-red color of blood and viscera of some victims were characteristic of acute cyanide poisoning [11]. Moreover, many responded well to administration of sodium thiosulfate, an effective therapy for cyanide poisoning but not MIC exposure [11]. UCC initially recommended use of sodium thiosulfate but withdrew the statement later prompting suggestions that it attempted to cover up evidence of HCN in the gas leak. The presence of HCN was vigorously denied by UCC and was a point of conjecture among researchers [8,11-13].
As further insult, UCC discontinued operation at its Bhopal plant following the disaster but failed to clean up the industrial site completely. The plant continues to leak several toxic chemicals and heavy metals that have found their way into local aquifers. Dangerously contaminated water has now been added to the legacy left by the company for the people of Bhopal [1,14]."
Lawsuits and penalties rarely hurt companies anymore. They're written off as the "cost of doing business". - Ymeg, on 02/09/2009, -3/+1So you can sue. Your monetary situation does not negate capitalism (which is not the case in this situation). You still have the right. "Externalizing" is also not capitalism.
You have confirmed my suspicion. - trythison4sighs, on 02/09/2009, -6/+4The ONLY responsibility the swedes have in this debacle is that if they should CHOSE to is to NOT buy drugs from India or China. I don't think anyone should be buying anything from China to begin with. That's why I don't shop Wal-Mart! It is the responsibility of India and China to regulate themselves!
- Gideon, on 02/09/2009, -3/+1what's this ruckus?!, I thought we swedes could do now wrong...
- JCH897, on 02/09/2009, -8/+1This is old news....
- Chairboy, on 02/09/2009, -10/+3Somewhere, a Digg user is working on a theory that describes how this is the fault of the Israelis. Get those creative juices pumping, these conspiracies won't make themselves, folks!
- daonlyfreez, on 02/09/2009, -9/+1Quick, bury this communist, librul, hippie drivel...
Nothing to see here, move along.
Companies know what is best for you! There is no need to have any doubt that they care! Capitalism rulez!
/s - Kalais, on 02/09/2009, -9/+1Yep, it would be nice if thats how communism worked... Or dictatorship for that matter....
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