Indian-origin US Senate hopeful against Chinese pharma imports

New York: Indian-origin pharmacist and Republican Senate hopeful Rik Mehta has launched a plan to force drug companies to reveal their products' country of origin, saying it is time to stop China's control over medicine supply in the US.

Mehta, who is running against Democratic Party Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker, said that Americans have a right to know where their medicine comes from especially when nearly all other products are labeled with the country it was made in as he recently launched the bring back made in America medicine campaign.

"I can look at products on my body, like my shirt and shoes and know exactly where it was made, but the same doesn't hold true for things that go in our body, like our prescription drugs. That makes no sense," the biotech entrepreneur and healthcare policy expert was quoted as saying by the New Jersey Globe newspaper.