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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1847466" data-attributes="member: 30007">I wrote about this on Saturday:<a href="http://www.diabettech.com/brexit/fact-checking-sir-michael-rawlins-statements-in-relation-to-insulin-and-brexit-should-we-be-worried/" target="_blank">http://www.diabettech.com/brexit/fact-checking-sir-michael-rawlins-statements-in-relation-to-insulin-and-brexit-should-we-be-worried/</a>Basically, all the Human insulin we use in the UK is manufactured in France, Spain and Denmark. The UK produces Porcine and Bovine insulin.Opening up agreements with non-UK suppliers comes with two issues:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">We can't make trade agreements outside the EU till we're outside the EU</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Logistics for importing from China or the US are vastly different in terms of transporting insulin, than from EU countries, in terms of cost of refrigerated shipping.</li> </ol>Of all the prescriptions for Insulin in England in April 2018, 0.3% were for Bovine and Porcine, and 99.7% were for Human and Human Analogue.In other words, while we do produce insulin in the UK, it's not what the vast majority of insulin users use, so to all intents and purposes, looking at what Rawlins said, we might as well not produce a drop of insulin in the UK!</blockquote>

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