Drugs are different I suppose because organisms are often a lot less sensitive to variation than man-made stuff, but it nevertheless worries me that the FDA’s generic equivalence test is pretty much limited to whether the generic has the same amount of active ingredient and that it delivers it in the same way. After hearing about how a change in humidity on the factory floor could affect the characteristics from one batch of chemicals to the next, I just don’t trust generics that much.

I wish drug companies would just drop prices on older drugs so that they were equivalent to generics.