Opinions on FDA, USDA, and DOD
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America's Drug Safety System
How good is America's drug safety system? Since 1997, more than a dozen prescription drugs have been taken off the market due to serious side effects - in some cases after hundreds of injuries and even deaths have occurred. Is the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for...
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Transgenic Meat Scandal
Prof. Joe Cummins gives a prompt account of how the United States regulatory agencies allowed its universities to pass potentially poisonous transgenic meat to the millions, thus reflecting badly on both the regulatory agencies and the university scientists. The inability of the US regulatory agencies to prevent contamination...
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FDA Drug Licensing and the Department of Defense
Did you think the FDA’s job IS to protect the public from dangerous drugs and vaccines? Well, yes, sometimes…as long as the federal government doesn’t want to administer those self-same dangerous products. FDA has been helped along by the 1997 FDA Modernization Act (FDAMA), which lowered the...
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FDA to Demand Supplement Makers to Vouch for Contents
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday proposed to require dietary supplement makers to prove their products contain the ingredients listed, and in the right strength, and that they don't harbor impurities. "Americans must have confidence that the dietary supplements they purchase...
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Forced Vaccines Haunt Gulf Vets
by Elliot Borin It was, the doctor at the Long Beach Veteran's Administration Hospital said, an incidental finding. A little gray smudge on the X-ray, a blob next to the pituitary gland. Six months later, University of California at Los Angeles surgeons worked six hours...
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Feds Pushing Toxic Anthrax Drug
by Elliot Borin Many veterans advocates believe a certain anthrax vaccine to be a major cause of Gulf War sickness. The company manufacturing it has launched a massive lobbying campaign to persuade the Bush administration to stockpile the controversial drug so it can be administered to...
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Military Stockpiling Anti-radiation Pills
WASHINGTON - At the urging of the Bush administration, military commanders are quietly stocking up on anti-radiation pills and making plans to give them to U.S. troops should they be exposed to radioactive fallout from an attack or accident, according to documents and officials. Suppliers of potassium...
