Chinese pharmaceutical company Sunshine Lake Pharma has become the first Chinese firm to win US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a long-acting insulin product.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Insulin has always been incredibly cheap and easy to produce. It’s crazy that “Chinese insulin” has to break into any kind of market, given that we could be producing it at home at-cost in quantities large enough to saturate the population for next to nothing.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      5 days ago

      given that we could be producing it at home at-cost in quantities large enough to saturate the population for next to nothing

      I say this out of complete ignorance: what’s stopping people? Regulation laws? Cost of initial equipment?