Re: Wyeth ganging up on estriol and compounding pharmacies

[Guest guest]

Compounders buy their drugs from PCCA, which purchases them from the

chemical companies that manufacture them, from which they receive a

Certificate of Analysis. Big Pharma has no part of this. These

chemicals are again inspected for quality by PCCA Quality Control AND

the *FDA* and state regulatory agencies for purity. So much for FDA's

claim that they have no oversight. When I visited PCCA (Professional

Compounding Centers of America) in Houston, we were given a tour and

told all about this series of inspections to insure quality. The

compounding pharmacy where I worked was regularly inspected by the

state of Indiana (I don't know how often, since I worked part-time),

and our levels of purity were always much better than the standards

required. The website address for what PCCA does is

www.pccarx.com/aboutus.aspx . Wyeth lost so much money from the WHI

report that they're trying to wipe out the competition--compounders.

But not only will women who use bio-identical hormones be hit, but so

will children with adult diseases (heart disease, for one) and pets,

among so many others. There will be a lot of angry, and perhaps DEAD,

patients.

Virginia

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> I thought that the big pharma companies supply the hormones that the

> compounding pharmacies use in their formulations? Each of these

pharmacies

> is not a manufacturer, they use hormones that are manufactured on a

vast

> scale. The hormones are all manufactured products, even if they are

> chemically identical to the bodies hormones.