# Cheap Medicines: Quality Standards and Safe Distribution

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2089216183669047449
- Source account: [@AldousHuxIey](https://x.com/AldousHuxIey)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:57
- Published: 2026-08-19
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/de/billige-arzneimittel-qualit%C3%A4t-und-sichere-vertriebswege.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution) Often no— No, I definitely can't say that.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=3) What do you definitely not want to say? That many products are, um, relatively easy to make and, um, that'd be a bit too risky, I think.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=11) No, that's not it. We want to project a positive image.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=13) Yes. You definitely can't say that. Um, what do you say to a pharmacy customer who wants to reach for a cheap Chinese headache pill?

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=22) If this medicine is on the market in Germany, it meets certain minimum quality standards.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=31) Um, that doesn't mean that if the medicine is cheap, that it's worse.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=35) Excuse me, do you really want to say that?

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=36) Sure. Can— can you say it any other way?

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=38) I would say at this point, um, he went to the pharmacy, didn't order it over the internet. What we would say: The secure, uh, legal distribution channels for obtaining medicines are safe medicines.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/78IMcChzD3pc/en/cheap-medicines-quality-standards-and-safe-distribution?t=49) Will that be enough for you? Um, yes, if you— Because that is—