Drugs banned domestically are routinely exported for sale abroad

Evidence

When the FDA did finally succeed in having the drug banned in the United States, the firm continued to sell it in foreign countries, a practice that is not uncommon. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 875

Categorization

• CANDY: A grimly memorable fact: a company keeps selling a lethal drug abroad after its domestic ban.
• SHARE: A pharmacology/global-health fact worth sending to a colleague working on pharmaceutical ethics or regulatory arbitrage.