Chinese and Indian manufacturing practices and that one Chinese company, Zhejaiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals had systemic problems of supervision , with the potent carcinogens N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid (NMBA), N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), and N-Nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), for a period of 4 years before being detected. (5) Domestic pharmaceutical facilities are inspected every 2 years, whereas foreign pharmaceutical facilities are inspected only every 9 years. Further, inspections of foreign facilities by the Food and Drug Administration have declined in the past 2 years. In the People’s Republic of China, these inspections have fallen by more than 10 percent. (6) In 2010, the People’s Republic of China embargoed the shipment of rare earth metals to Japan as political leverage in its negotiations over a boating incident that took place between the two countries in the East China Sea. National security experts warn that if such an incident were to take place between the United States and China, and China were to embargo medicine and pharmaceutical ingredients, the United States would be helpless. United States dependence on Chinese medicine and pharmaceutical ingredients poses a national security risk. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the dependence of the United States on unsafe Chinese drugs