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This article originally appeared on ProPublica. It’s a fundamental tenet of health care in America: Generic drugs are just as safe and effective as brand-name ones. The only difference is the price.

But a ProPublic investigation found that the FDA rarely tests the quality of generic drugs, many of them manufactured overseas. National reporter Debbie Cenziper of ProPublica was one of the authors ...