The generic manufacturing and packaging sites must pass the same quality standards as those for brand-name drugs.

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Packaging is cheapened, chemical formulations altered, sanitary standards curtailed, and on and on, in a series of continual product debasements.

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The claims stem from the housing bubble when BofA subsidiary Countrywide Financial and scores of other firms loosened lending standards in order to reap the huge rewards associated with creating and packaging mortgages into investment products.

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