print email comment close Buying Medicine From Outside the United States URL: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/BuyingMedicinefromOutsidetheUnitedStates/default.htm Description: This document outlines potential concerns with pharmaceutical products purchased from "an Internet site, from a storefront business that offers to order medicine for you, or during visits outside the United States." Addresses quality assurance, labeling, counterfeit potential, untested substances, and related topics. From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Publisher: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Consumer protection Drugs -- Purchasing Pharmaceutical policy -- United States LII Database Information: Record 8552 created by Jennifer English on 09/28/2004 Last modification on 07/07/2009 Published: 09/28/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8552