The FDA

PAWNS of the Pharmaceutical Companies

and the public gets screwed again and again and again.

US: FDA received over 1 million petition signatures and letters demanding that GMO foods be labeled as such, but they counted each petition as only one comment even though it may have contained hundreds or thousands of signatures from different people; thus, they reported only 394 comments in favor of labeling. NaturalSociety 2012 Mar 30

Pink Slime

3-16-12   Gerald Zirnstein, a former USDA scientist who coined the term, quit his job after his bosses approved its use in our beef and now grinds his own hamburger meat to avoid the digesting the stuff. In an interview, he recalled that when he brought up the issue to former undersecretary of agriculture, Joann Smith she simply responded that "it’s pink, therefore it’s meat."
She now works for the company that produces pink slime and has made millions of dollars as a result of her legalizing the use of the cheap excuse for real meat.

The FDA seems to have a little trouble seeing.

If you want a lifetime patsy job, what you do is get 'hired' by the FDA. You will be wined and dined by hundreds or more drug and chemical companies local and foreign. Than after a few years of "favorable" decisions, or maybe 20 years of government favors you retire with your government retirement check and a fat paycheck for sitting on some board position of one of the drug companies you “helped.”

I believe they call that a "perk" when you can put friends in lucrative government jobs. I wonder how much you have to "tip" a congressman to get hired to one of the lucrative jobs at the FDA?

• The FDA to de-regulate GE crops despite evidence of harm.
• The FDA is a tool used by corrupt administration to support the pharm's.
• Conventional medicine finally calls for dismantling of FDA's (link missing)corrupt power structure."
• FDA - the 'most' (link missing)Corrupt?
• Abolish the (link missing)FDA!
• The Claim There is "No Scientific Evidence" for Alternative Treatments.
• One small victory Over The (link missing)FDA!"
• Think Twice Before Using (original link on nytimes dot com/top/news/health/ is no longer there
• The "OVER" medicating of our children.

China Executes their FDA Chief.

Search for yourself, I had 574,000 hits when I searched Google using "FDA" and "Corrupt" as search words. that may change...

When the FDA tests a new 'drug,' they are tested individually, that is to say they are not necessarily tested for interactions with other chemicals or drugs, certainly not all of them.

Trust the FDA [sic]

So what happens to the patient when it is combined with other drugs, chemicals, or real world contaminants? What if the drug reacts to perchlorate, fluoride, alcohol, Cilas, Alli, Avandia, Requip, Vytorin, Benadryl, Prozack, Viagra, Lipotor, Relacore, Zetia, BGH, Zelnrom, Advair, Aspertain, Splenda, Ambian, Atrazine, bovine growth hormone, MSG or some chemical or say one of the over 1500 "approved" dditives/preservatives prepared food? What about one of the over 15000 additives tried in cigarette tobacco that the tobacco industry isn't even required to report?

But what am I saying? The FDA doesn't really test drugs, no they don't. What happens is the manufacture tells the FDA they tested the drug and the FDA usually accepts their results. So how objective is that? However, if you are a little start-up company or maybe somebody who sells "Alternative Medicine", not only will they demand extensive testing on your part, the FDA will put the you through rigorous testing and of course it will either fail and/or you go broke testing your own product. This is not speculation, it is a fact. The pharmaceutical companies actually control the FDA, there are billions of dollars at stake, they don't take competition or negative findings lightly.

"Inside" the FDA approval process.

Just think about it a minute, an opportunity like this comes along and you think industry isn't going to jump on it? Example, the pharmaceutical manufactures are or were (who knows, maybe they still are) selling 10 times the amount of "cold" remedies to just south of the Mexican border than that area could possibly use. Everybody including the Pharmaceuticals knew/know they are being resold to Meth manufactures but the pharmaceuticals don't care, there only concern is the bottom line. There is money to be made. It isn't illegal (un-ethical as hell) and it is just too damn convenient and lucrative to pass up. $$$

The last few days (1-16-08) a news story has broke about the drug company "Schering-Plough" the makers of Vytorin/Zetia. Not only does the drug not do what it was made to do, the manufacture after finding that out, changed the objective. On top of that, something that should be setting off alarm bells in every bodies mind, they have know it was ineffective for 18 months. "House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the two manufacturers asking for the findings — and noting that the endpoint of the study specified in the companies' original study design differed suspiciously from that submitted to the government's clinical trials database in October 2007. "We are concerned · · · with the apparent manipulation of trial data," the letter read. The CEO of Schering-Plough sold his 700,000 shares of the company just prior to the release of the information.

We are talking about 18 (B) billion dollars here in the statin industry. With this blatant FDA failure and pharmaceutical cover up congress has come out saying they are "shocked" that something like this could happen. The information they got with their check from the "pahrms" probably said everything was hunky dory I suspect.

Right now (12-07) the FDA has 'certified' "AMBIEN" (Zolpidem) as 'SAFE' for the public but they are finding out it is not. People are driving while in a state of sleep (that's safe?), using dangerous equipment and even people in the medical profession find themselves in a dreamworld long after the effects of AMBIEN were supposed to have worn off. Did the maker of Zolpidem take it off the market? NO! Why should they, they can't be sued, there is no incentive. They put a "label" on the drug. "Caution, when using this drug you might be in a state of sleep when you shouldn't be." [sic] That really comforts the people run over by the driver on AMBIEN.

FDA a pawn for the Pharmaceutical industry

The FDA Used to Shield Big Pharma From Lawsuits

In January 2006, the FDA announced the Bush administration's latest gift to Big Pharma in a statement that said people who believe they have been injured by drugs approved by the FDA should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts.

"We think that if your company complies with the FDA processes, if you bring forward the benefits and risks of your drug, and let your information be judged through a process with highly trained scientists, you should not be second-guessed by state courts that don't have the same scientific knowledge," said Scott Gottlieb, the FDA's deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs.

To soften the blow, the agency's claim of federal preemption was included as a preamble to the long sought after new drug labeling guidelines. In response to the FDA's statement, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) issued a statement of his own that said: "It's a typical abuse by the Bush Administration - take a regulation to improve the information that doctors and patients receive about prescription drugs and turn it into a protection against liability for the drug industry."

The ploy was also readily recognized by state lawmakers and trial lawyers as another attempt to reduce the publics ability to hold Big Pharma accountable. "Eliminating the rights of individuals to hold negligent drug companies accountable puts patients in even more danger than they already are in from drug company executives that put profits before safety," said Ken Suggs, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

"The fact that the drug industry can get the FDA to rewrite the rules so that CEOs can escape accountability for putting dangerous and deadly drugs on the market is the scariest example yet of how much control these big corporations have over our political process," Mr Suggs told the Washington Post.

According to Attorney Mark Labaton, a partner at the firm Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP, with offices in New York and LA, "the Administration's recent efforts to misuse federal rule making in the pharmaceutical and other areas to eviserate consumer rights is a big step backward."

"The new FDA rules to limit consumers' rights," he says, "are part and parcel of a larger effort to deny persons injured by unsafe products - be they drugs, cigarettes or automobiles - any form of redress."

"Clearly," Mr Labaton notes, "this Administration and its supporters want to slam the courthouse doors on working men and women injured by unsafe products."

He says its ironic that an Administrative that calls itself "compassionate" and "conservative" consistently turns its back on "limited government" and "states rights" when it comes to protecting the rights of seriously injured consumers.

Upon learning of the FDA's power grab, the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan group that represents state lawmakers, accused the FDA of trying to seize authority that it did not have. The organization bases its opposition, in part on the following:

"The FDA has usurped the authority of Congress, state legislatures and state courts. There is no statutory authority in the FDCA for FDA to preempt state product liability laws as they relate to prescription drugs."

"Instead of seeking valid congressional authority, un-elected agency officials are seeking to preempt state product liability laws by writing this preemption into a final rule, thereby undermining state policy and judicial decision made in this area."

"State tort laws and civil justice systems serve as an important check on federal standards. Our civil justice system establishes a duty of care that protects citizens when the federal government is too slow to act or when federal standards are insufficient. States have the ability to achieve greater protections for their citizens through successful product liability lawsuits."

In an earlier gift delivered to Big Pharma in December 2005, Republican leaders, and specifically Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), attached protective provisions to a Department of Defense appropriations report that gave the industry "unprecedented immunity," according to Democratic lawmakers who described the underhanded move as follows:

"Republican leaders added provisions to the conference report after cutting a back-room deal in the middle of the night. The conference report grants sweeping immunity to drug companies for injuries caused by vaccines and drugs and for the administration of those vaccines and drugs, even if they are made with flagrant disregard for basic safety precautions."

"Moreover, the compensation program is a sham, leaving people who become injured from a drug or vaccine without recourse."

Since 2002, Senator Frist had tried numerous times to insert this rider in Homeland Security Bills after thousands of lawsuits were filed by parents who believe the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, contained in childhood vaccines until recently, caused autism and other neurological disorders in their kids.

The rider could save Big Pharma hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/00192/fda_lawsuit.html

Following serious FDA failures, Congress may reward the agency with even more money, regulatory power

Various consumer and patient groups joined with a leading cardiologist to urge quick action from Congress to allow the FDA to gain more power than it has now in order for it to require new warnings on medicines and drug post-approval studies. In addition, witnesses from these groups lobbied for a boost to the FDA's budget.

Sheila Burke, co-chair of an Institute of Medicine panel, said "The absence of that [budget increase] would leave the agency starved for resources ... with unclear authority in terms of being able to deal with the industry." Burke indicated that major reforms to improve the FDA's oversight of medicines after they reach the market was needed in light of recent drug safety concerns similar to Merck's pulling of arthritis pill Vioxx from the market in September 2004.

After Vioxx and other safety controversies, "the American people no longer trust the FDA to protect their health," said Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Steve Nissen. Nissen added that Congress needed to act in order for the FDA to rebuild public trust. FDA spokeswoman Kristen Neese said, "The FDA has done considerable work over the past two years to improve our approach to drug safety, and we are committed to taking additional steps."

"Giving the FDA more money without serious reforms and new accountability is like giving crack to a drug addict," said Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate and frequent critic of the FDA. "This agency's utter disregard for public safety poses a threat to the lives of Americans that far exceeds the threat of any terrorist group.

Congress finds FDA Failures to Protect a Growing Danger

posted by fedup Sun Jul 9 9:48 MST

A 15-month inquiry by a top House Democrat has found that enforcement of the nation's food and drug l was declined sharply during the first five years of the Bush administration. For instance, the investigation found, the number of warning letters that the Food and Drug Administration issued to drug companies, medical device makers and others dropped 54 percent, to 535 in 2005 from 1,154 in 2000.

I didn't find these using google

Abolishing the FDA

FDA Policies Keep People Sick and Create a False Sense of Security

John Stossel: Is It Time To Abolish The FDA? Unethical To Deny Americans Life-Saving Drugs.

Thousands of people per week continue to die from Covid-19. Yet, America's FDA stops people from taking drugs that might save lives.

Thousands continue to die from COVID. Yet America’s FDA stops us from taking drugs that might save lives.

The CATO Institute "End the FDA Drug Monopoly: Let Patients Choose Their Medicines"

it would be better to strip the Food and Drug Administration of its monopoly control over pharmaceutical development.

Abolish the FDA

The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.

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This file "sweet poisons" was added here

SWEET POISON ... A MUST READ

From "Organic Consumers Association"

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick.  She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically, in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but hey believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment. I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to the doctor with this article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death. This story was written by a senior R.N. When she got to Florida March 2 2, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery and, she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.

    If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.

I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

    In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned, and hearing loss improved markedly.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.

    During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!'

    People were jumping up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?' Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a Serious problem. Dr.. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.' Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!

    Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a Patient with retinopathy, in fact had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/ brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.' It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e . Mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during Early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.' Herein lies the problem:

    There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was Included in 100 different products and strong objection was made Concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two Subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!

Monsanto lies about food safety tests.

There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

    And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that Would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the Problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.

The bill was killed.

It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now!

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW!

Hawaii Senate, House Consider Resolutions on Aspartame

By Stephen Fox
Hawaii Reporter, March 13, 2008
Straight to the Source

There is now a Hawaii Senate Resolution authored by Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland, which requests the Department of Health and National Academy of Sciences to review existing reports and studies related to aspartame, by funding source.

It resolves that given the enormous amount of evidence that has been compiled concerning the neurodegenerative harm it can cause, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requested to rescind approval of aspartame immediately on a phase-out basis over six months to one year.

We are very pleased to note that this is the strongest legislative document concerning aspartame ever presented anywhere in the world.

On March 12, another resolution, HCR132, introduced by Rep. Josh Green, M.D., Chairman of the House Committee on Health, was approved by its first committee (Health) and moves on to the next (Consumer Protection and Commerce).
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_10883.cfm

Combining Food Additives May Be Harmful, Say Researchers

Aspartame and artificial coloring's investigated · Mice nerve cells stopped growing in experiments
Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent
Wednesday December 21, 2005
Guardian
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1671821,00.html

New research on common food additives, including the controversial sweetener aspartame and food colourings, suggests they may interact to interfere with the development of the nervous system.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool examined the toxic effects on nerve cells in the laboratory of using a combination of four common food additives - aspartame, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and the artificial coloring's brilliant blue and quinoline yellow. The findings of their two-year study were published last week in the journal Toxicological Sciences ([Link no longer avaliable] read full study here)

The Liverpool team reported that when mouse nerve cells were exposed to MSG and brilliant blue or aspartame and quinoline yellow in laboratory conditions, combined in concentrations that theoretically reflect the compound that enters the bloodstream after a typical children's snack and drink, the additives stopped the nerve cells growing and interfered with proper signaling systems.

The mixtures of the additives had a much more potent effect on nerve cells than each additive on its own.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/toxic/msg010306.cfm

New Mexico State Senator Calls for Ban on Aspartame Artificial Sweetener

We request that you order FDA Commissioner nominee, Andrew Von Eschenbach M.D., to rescind the FDA approval for the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.  Its approval was forced through the FDA in 1981, and the USA has had 25 years to observe the incontrovertible medical effects from Aspartame, which derive from its being metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde, and two unessential amino acids, one of which, phenylalanine is neurotoxic lowering the seizure threshold and depleting serotonin and the other aspartic acid, an excitotoxin.  The molecule breaks down to a proven brain tumor causing agent, diketopiperazine. Aspartame is now found in 6000 USA food products and more than 500 medications.

• http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_2880.cfm
• http://www.aspartame.net/
• http://www.douglassreport.com/reports/aspartame_3.html?gclid=CJamnqH5zZgCFRwwawodGQxH1w

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The medicated child file inserted here.

Medicated Child

Today (4-8-08) on a PBS program called "Frontline," titled: "The Medicated Child", they were telling how children are being prescribed drug after drug. Zoloft was one of the drugs they were specifically talking about. It was interesting that at first children were being diagnosed as having ADHD and than somebody wrote a paper saying that many of the ADHD patients were actually Bi Polar and suddenly children were being diagnosed as being Bi Polar much more often than ADHD.

In one of the examples given, a child is a little hyper in school so it is to the teachers benefit if the child is sedated. It is so common in some places that teacher after teacher will suggest the same thing. So eventually even cautious parents take their child to the doctor for help and the doctor having been trained by pharmaceutical infiltrated schools jump on this often prescribing a drug or several drugs to cure one thing but then that requires another drug to fix a side effect and so on. It seems so clear to me the effect of having drug companies so involved in medical schools, is that the first and second and third reaction of a doctor is to prescribe more and more drugs. During the interview it was found to be common place to prescribe a drug for a child without even meeting the patient which seems a bit unbelievable to me but the doctor went on straight faced justifying why that was.

Here is the thing, the drugs had little or no testing or were tested only on adults. Later tests confirmed that the effect drugs had on adults didn't necessarily have the same effect in children. A few children killed themselves shortly after beginning a regiment of these drugs. Oh well, you can’t sue a drug company.

HR 875 Update:

10-30-2010

Will the Real "Monsanto Bill" Please Stand Up?

News of a "Monsanto Bill to Criminalize Organic Farming" has been speeding around the internet. The Organic Consumers Fund, OCA's lobbying partner in Washington, DC, analyzed the bill and determined that we could not Support food safety legislation like this that could be applied in a one-size-fits-all manner to all farms, including organic and farm-to-consumer operations — especially a bill that references the National Animal Identification System (a voluntary USDA animal tagging program that some influential members of Congress are trying to make mandatory for every owner of even a single farm animal). With these concerns, we put out this alert on March 12.

Nevertheless, we were alarmed by the misleading headlines attached to anti-HR 875 alerts. Even if this bill were passed as is today, it wouldn't criminalize organic farming. The bill would require farms to have a food safety plan, allow their records to be inspected, and comply with food safety regulations. To say this is tantamount to criminalization doesn't give organic farmers enough credit.

Worse, linking this bill to Monsanto (for no other reason than because the bill's sponsor Rosa DeLauro is married to political operative Stan Greenberg, who lists Monsanto as a 'past' client) obscures the real damage Monsanto is doing in Congress. This past week, Monsanto got a bill passed in committee that forces GMOs on Africa.