Gee, I'm so glad your mother respects us... Does she think people die from using our own drugs up here, or something? I got a good counterexample -- our version of the birth control patch, Ortho Evra, is safer than the US version, because it's lower dose. Why Ortho doesn't simply recall the US version of the patch (delivers 60ug of hormone instead of a more rational 35ug and thereby almost doubles the risk of blood clot and stroke) and reissue it at a lower dose, I don't know, but their solution so far seems to be "take higher-risk people off it, and monitor the rest aggressively."
If I were a real conspiracy theorist, I'd suggest that the machinations behind that have a lot to do with the ethos in the US which seeks to restrict any and all forms of birth control, especially the convenient ones, and also to a disease industry that makes a lot of money off of people with the "discretionary income" (in one sense or another) to be on a drug which requires frequent doctor's visits and aggressive monitoring.
*sigh* FUD
If I were a real conspiracy theorist, I'd suggest that the machinations behind that have a lot to do with the ethos in the US which seeks to restrict any and all forms of birth control, especially the convenient ones, and also to a disease industry that makes a lot of money off of people with the "discretionary income" (in one sense or another) to be on a drug which requires frequent doctor's visits and aggressive monitoring.
Oh, PS...