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Protecting Our Essential Medicines Act

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This bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to compile and maintain a confidential list of critical drugs imported into the United States, including information about their country of origin and manufacturing facilities. The bill establishes an interagency task force to identify drugs critical to public health or national security, and creates additional lists identifying drugs produced exclusively in foreign entities of concern and the top three countries from which the U.S. imports critical drugs. The lists are not publicly disclosed except for aggregate country-of-origin data, and information is shared only with national security agencies and within HHS for supply chain vulnerability assessment.

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