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- Genre
- Investigation, Social Issues, Foreign Worlds, and Science
- Synopsis
Part Two of two one-hours. Part One is For Export Only: Pesticides
"If you ever wanted to know how human beings behave in the absence of rules, in an open unregulated market, these films provide the answer."—Washington Post
Documents U.S. and western European medicines exported to developing nations with minimal, misleading or non-existent information about indications, contra-indications, side effects or warnings.
Only one manufacturer agreed to be interviewed for this report. It then tried to bribe the producer $1 million to not distribute it."Of value and interest. It will present another face of the pharmaceutical industry, contrasting greatly with the one ordinarily presented to students and practitioners of medicine and pharmacy in the U.S."
—Journal of Pharmacy TeachingProducts are banned or restricted because they cause blindness, liver disorders, central nervous system diseases, childhood permanent sex changes; adult sterility and death; lab test animal birth defects.
- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 57 minutes
Credits
- Robert Richter ... Producer, Director, Writer, Reporter
- Chantal Bernheim ... Associate Producer
- Jackie Leopold ... Associate Producer
- Burleigh Wartes ... Cinematographer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Richter Productions
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1979-1980
- Locations
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Kenya, Japan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Switzerland, USA.
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 1980
- Festivals
- American Film Festival, International Consumer Film Competition
- Awards
- American Assn for Advancement of Science - Distinguished Science Reporting Award; DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award (TV's Pulitzer Prize)
- Distribution
- One of world's largest corporation called Producer "most dangerous media producer" in America.
- Broadcast (Prod.)
- WNET-TV
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles
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