FDA: "THESE DRUGS ARE SO GENERIC, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE LABELS"WASHINGTON - After years of debate and intense lobbying efforts to prevent it, the Food and Drug Administration today ruled that generic versions of generic drugs will be legal in the United States by Labor Day.
The so-called generic-generics will be so generic that they have will neither have labels on the outside nor cotton inside. In addition, to appease the large drug manufacturers that for years fought against their legalization, the "generic-generics" will contain an ingredient to induce nausea in order to make them less palatable to consumers.
Maurice Walgreen, President of the Walgreen Pharmacy chain, says his stores will carry the drugs but that he has "nothing but disdain" for them. "Tell me," Walgreen asked rhetorically, "what self-respecting sick person would take this crap?" Walgreen said he is instructing his pharmacists not even to say "thank you" when filling prescriptions for generic-generics. "In fact," Walgren added, "I told them, don't even look at the cheapos who ask for this [stuff]. Just take their money and toss the damn bottle at them."
