Warning of non-standard concentration is printed on the box by the Turkish acetaminophen supplier Atabay themselves
Twitter user Ziad Fazel purchased a bottle to inspect it, finding the warning printed on the packaging that was supplied by the manufacturer when initially shipped.
He also suggests that for 80 million dollars, the Alberta government and Edmonton-based supplier MHCare should have been able to negotiate the right formulation.
🧵Unboxing videos of $80m boondoggle by Danielle Smith + MHCare Medical to [incompetently] import children's acetaminophen from Atabay in Turkey.
Excuse the shaky hand – I don't have a tripod and missed lunch to get ahead of much-anticipated @TheBreakdownAB tonight. pic.twitter.com/eartN21ckY
— Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 (@ZiadFazel) October 27, 2024
Why didn't Smith & Copping use the leverage of 5m bottle custom order, including package & label, to get Atabay to mix the correct 160 mg per 5 mL in the first place?!
Their own announcement shows the pharmacists were complaining about having to compound to this concentration. pic.twitter.com/fJK5X8RuLn
— Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 (@ZiadFazel) October 27, 2024
A few days later, Fazel does some weight and volume calculations to show that Alberta likely overpaid for rush shipping on even just the first shipment that actually ever arrived.
When I finally got my hands on $80m Danielle Smith/MHCare Medical boondoggle children's acetaminophen, I weighed & measured it.
Thanks to glass bottle: 291 grams
250,000 bottles = 73 tons!
Smith's decision to airlift that to Alberta in Jan 2023 is case study in bad ethics.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/RXVQbHMAAu
— Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 (@ZiadFazel) October 30, 2024