October 11, 2024
A fake survey from a pharma-funded organization
The Partnership for Safe Medicines has jumped the shark. It recently released results of a survey saying a majority of Americans believe that compounded GLP-1s are unsafe, might be contaminated, and ought to be (somehow) even further regulated by the FDA.
“It ain’t a legitimate survey,” says APC’s Scott Brunner. “They used leading, alarmist questions not to get actual answers, but to scare people — and then release skewed results as if they actually reflect public opinion. It’s the kind of project that would get an ‘F’ in a high school statistics class.”
The “survey” asked biased (and vaguely prejudiced) questions like:
“[How concerned are you that] Online sellers may ship compounded, counterfeit, or research only (not for human consumption) versions of medicines from unknown or uncertain places of origin, like China?
And all this comes on the heels of months of PSM social media posts making false assertions about compounded drugs, conflating them with drug counterfeiting and egregiously misrepresenting what you do as compounders.
The PSM is funded mainly by drugmakers. Its name seems noble — who could possibly be against safe medications? — but in practice, the organization has been attacking legitimate compounding, claiming that compounded drugs are inherently unsafe and put patients at risk.
“The group has posted 483s for compounding pharmacies with some egregious findings, and then asserts, based on a single 483, that compounding is dangerous,” Brunner said. “And never once have they spotlighted 483s and recalls from the big drugmakers. Which for me raises the question: Do they really care about safe medications, or is their mission more about marginalizing compounding?”
APC is on the case, of course. We’re proactively reaching out to reporters and members of Congress, warning them about the deception being peddled in the PSM’s “survey.”
