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Low-quality drugs can harm patients. Although there was not much interest in this issue when generic drugs were assumed to be high quality, cases of organ failure have been linked to poor-quality immunosuppressive drugs.3 Recently, a team of U.S. and South Korean researchers with access to FDA data determined that significantly more serious adverse event reports were linked to generic drugs manufactured in India than to equivalent drugs manufactured in the United States https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2518256