1.   And they are not explicitly allowed to import such drugs from countries with thriving generic drug industries, like India and Brazil.

2.   As a result, many people who think they are importing drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are actually breaking the law.

3.   A House-passed bill awaiting consideration in the Senate would loosen and clarify the rules on importing drugs.

4.   Burns, running for a third term, opposes repealing the law against importing drugs on the ground that Americans could be subjected to adulterated and inferior medicine.

5.   Congress approved a law in December allowing pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs at lower costs for consumers.

6.   Former health minister Nkosazana Zuma sought ways to import the drug at lower prices and raised issues of effectiveness, but never safety.

7.   Freeman imported the drug from Europe, where he said it is synthesized by a private chemist for use in the tests.

8.   Hillary Clinton has re-entered the health care wars, this time calling for legislation to allow cheaper prescription drugs to be imported into the United States from Canada.

9.   In the other case, the drug was imported from the United States.

10.   Previously, veteran American mobsters imported drugs through their own networks or bought it from non-Russian suppliers.