Tonight on NBCNightlyNews: US officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply. 'Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China,' retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBCNews. 'That is a strategic vulnerability.'
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"We can't make penicillin anymore," said Gibson."The last penicillin plant in the United States closed in 2004." "China is the world's largest exporter of vitamins and antibiotic raw materials," he said, according to an NBC News translation."Once the export is reduced, the medical systems of some developed countries will not work."Workers sort pig intestines in a Chinese factory. A mucous membrane from the intestines is cooked to produce a dry substance known as crude heparin, a first step in producing the drug known as heparin.
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