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Title: From The Fraud And Death Administration's (FDA) Own Website
Source: FDA
URL Source: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/Developmen ... ractionsLabeling/ucm114848.htm
Published: May 19, 2012
Author: Some Criminal
Post Date: 2012-05-19 14:36:51 by Original_Intent
Ping List: *Agriculture-Environment*     Subscribe to *Agriculture-Environment*
Keywords: FDA, Fraud, Death, Dishonesty
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Why Learn about Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)?

• Over 2 MILLION serious ADRs yearly

• 100,000 DEATHS yearly

• ADRs 4th leading cause of death ahead of pulmonary disease, diabetes, AIDS, pneumonia, accidents and automobile deaths

• Ambulatory patients ADR rate—unknown

• Nursing home patients ADR rate— 350,000 yearly

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The Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are (1) not all in the US; a great many occur in foreign countries, sometimes with medications that have not yet been approved by the FDA for marketing in the US (one such was Thalidomide - whose dangerous qualities were detected by an FDA researcher even as the manufacturer was paying off politicians to pressure the FDA to approve it as an aspirin substitute), and (2) not all ended in death or even very serious symptoms - a great many simply result in rashes, nausea, constipation and the like.

It is not always possible to detect ADRs when the drug is still in the experimental or pre-approval stage; to that time it has been used by only a limited number of people, frequently under a doctor's close supervision, frequently without uncommon sensitivities or unusual medical histories, etc. Some drawbacks to drugs become apparent only when a very large population is taken them under more random circumstances. Many drugs - there was an arthritis medication only a few years back - have been pulled off the market because of ADRs that were not seen in the pre-approval demographic of users.

Shoonra  posted on  2012-05-19   16:47:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

A sterling attempt to create an ambiguity where none exists.

1 life would be too many when it is created by the revolving wheel of corruption which is the FDA.

Attempts to obfuscate are, per your usual, nothing more than an apologia for criminals.

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-05-19   17:05:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

1 life would be too many when it is created by the revolving wheel of corruption which is the FDA.

Let's just outlaw all drugs then, since 1 life would be too many, according to you.

Have fun at the dentist, next time. lol

And surgery? Maybe they'll give you a stick to bite on, since general anesthesia does carry a risk of death.

Better hope that infection doesn't get bad. Things can go downhill fast when you see a red streak working it's way to the heart.

PSUSA2  posted on  2012-05-19   17:33:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I see your reading comprehension problem is giving you trouble again.

1 life would be too many when it is created by the revolving wheel of corruption which is the FDA.

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-05-19   17:36:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

the revolving wheel of corruption which is the FDA.

I read just fine.

You say Revolving Wheel Of Corruption = FDA. The FDA is totally corrupt according to what YOU said. Therefore all decisions by that totally corrupt FDA are not just worthless, but intentionally harmful (because it's totally corrupt, right?) because it results in some people dying. Well, people die. The FDA is not there to prevent people from ever dying.

You are not going to get one past me. lol. You just not that good.

But I understand why you accuse them of total corruption. That's because everyone there would have to be In On It.

PSUSA2  posted on  2012-05-19   18:11:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

the revolving wheel of corruption which is the FDA.

I read just fine.

You say Revolving Wheel Of Corruption = FDA. The FDA is totally corrupt according to what YOU said. Therefore all decisions by that totally corrupt FDA are not just worthless, but intentionally harmful (because it's totally corrupt, right?) because it results in some people dying. Well, people die. The FDA is not there to prevent people from ever dying.

You are not going to get one past me. lol. You just not that good.

But I understand why you accuse them of total corruption. That's because everyone there would have to be In On It.

It is amusing watching you spin your wheels of diversion, personal attacks and attempts to avoid anything of substance

How many fallacies can we find in your little incoherency?

FDA is not there to prevent people from ever dying.

Red Herring

False Dilemma/Dichotomy/Black or White Fallacy

False Analogy

You are not going to get one past me. lol. You just not that good.

Red Herring

Argumentum Ad Hominem

But I understand why you accuse them of total corruption. That's because everyone there would have to be In On It.

Strawman Argument

False Dilemma/Dichotomy/Black or White Fallacy

Lies and Deception: How the FDA Does Not Protect Your Best Interests.

Did you know that many retired FDA officials go to work as special advisors to the pharmaceutical and food industries?

It's true. Federal agencies like the FDA—which were created to protect consumers—often behave like branch offices of companies like Monsanto, which they are supposed to regulate. And when the names and dossiers of the individuals who work with allies in Congress and the White House to oppose food safety measures are revealed, the picture becomes even more sinister.

The fact is, it has been widely reported that FDA (Federal Drug Administration), EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) officials are frequently rewarded with lucrative jobs at the companies they were regulating.

Conflict of interest

This insidious conflict of interest exhibited by the U.S. food and pharmaceutical industries has been going on for almost half a century. Mark Gold, founder of the Aspartame Toxicity Information Center in Concord, New Hampshire (mgold@holisticmed.com) provides an overview of the situation in his "Analysis of the influence of the Aspartame Industry on the Scientific Committee on Food." ¹ 

"In the United States, corruption of governmental and scientific committees by the food industry was disclosed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In an article in the journal Science (1972), it was revealed that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Food Protection Committee was being funded by the food, chemical and packaging industries. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was relying on the NAS Committee for 'independent' information. The Chairman of the NAS Subcommittee investigating monosodium glutamate (MSG) had recently taken part in research partially funded by the MSG manufacturer. Another member of the Subcommittee became a spokesperson for the MSG industry. (Science 1972) Other members of the Subcommittee had ties to the MSG industry.

Since that time numerous governmental committees have been corrupted by the placement of food industry-funded consultants on these committees." ²³

The revolving door

A recent report by the Edmonds Institute lists names of the possible hundreds of men and women who move in and out of "revolving doors" as Federal regulators and directors, commissioners and scientists at the companies they are supposed to regulate.⁴ 

Close relationships between regulators and those they regulate are always a cause of concern because the conflict of interest inevitably results in the quality of regulation and oversight of a technology being compromised … which inevitably results in the promotion of foods and drugs that are frequently unsafe.

The Edmonds Institute has been researching these relationships for some time. Here are some examples:

Margaret Miller … former chemical laboratory supervisor for Monsanto, … now Deputy Director of Human Food Safety and Consultative Services, New Animal Drug Evaluation Office, Center for Veterinary Medicine in the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).⁵⁶ 

Michael Taylor, former legal advisor to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Bureau of Medical Devices and Bureau of Foods, later executive assistant to the Commissioner of the FDA,…still later a partner at the law firm of King & Spaulding where he supervised a nine-lawyer group whose clients included Monsanto Agricultural Company, … still later Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the United States Food and Drug Administration, … and later with the law firm of King & Spaulding … now head of the Washington, D.C. office of Monsanto Corporation.⁵⁶ 

Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen (an FDA "primary reviewer for all rbST and other dairy drug production applications") were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994 for their role in the FDA's approval of Posilac, Monsanto Corporation's formulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbST or rBGH). The GAO Office found "no conflicting financial interests with respect to the drug's approval" and only "one minor deviation from now superseded FDA regulations". (Quotations are from the 1994 GAO report).

The FDA and Monsanto: Strange bedfellows

Monsanto was required to submit a scientific report on rBGH to the FDA so the agency could determine the growth hormone's safety. Margaret Miller put the report together, and in 1989 shortly before she submitted the report, Miller left Monsanto to work for the FDA. Guess what her first job was? Strangely enough, to determine whether or not to approve the report she wrote for Monsanto! The bottom line is that Monsanto approved its own report. Miller was assisted by another former Monsanto researcher, Susan Sechen.

But in an article titled "Not Milk: The USDA, Monsanto, and the U.S. Dairy Industry" Ché Green, founder and director of The ARMEDIA Institute, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization focusing on farm animal issues in the United States, writes that, "The results of the study, in fact, were not made available to the public until 1998, when a group of Canadian scientists obtained the full documentation and completed an independent analysis of the results. Among other instances of neglect, the documents showed that the FDA had never even reviewed Monsanto's original studies (on which the approval for Posilac {rBGH} had been based), so in the end the point was moot whether or not the report had contained all of the original data." ⁷ 

And as though the FDA didn't already exhibit enough audacity it handed Michael Taylor the responsibility to make the decision as to whether or not rBGH-derived milk should be labeled. (At the time, Michael Taylor, who had previously worked as a lawyer for Monsanto, was executive assistant to the Commissioner of the FDA.)

In 1994, Taylor ended up writing the rBGH labeling guidelines that prohibit the dairy industry from stating that their products either contain or are free from rBGH. Even worse, to keep rBGH-milk from being "stigmatized" in the marketplace, the FDA ruled that the labels of non-rBGH products must state that there is no difference between rBGH and the natural hormone.⁸ 

According to journalist Jennifer Ferraro, "while working for Monsanto,Taylor had prepared a memo for the company as to whether or not it would be constitutional for states to erect labeling laws concerning rBGH dairy products. In other words, Taylor helped Monsanto figure out whether or not the corporation could sue states or companies that wanted to tell the public that their products were free of Monsanto's drug." ⁹

The current situation

Monsanto is suing Maine-based Oakhurst Dairy for labeling their milk "Our Farmers' Pledge: No Artificial Growth Hormones." According to Monsanto, Oakhurst Dairy does not have the right to let its customers know whether its milk contains genetically engineered hormones. What hogwash! Oakhurst says they've been labeling their products like this for four years, in response to consumer demand.

Although rBGH has been banned in every industrialized nation in the world except for the United States, Monsanto continues to claim that rBGH-derived milk is no different from the natural stuff, despite documentation that rBGH milk contains substantially higher levels of a potent cancer tumor promoter called IGF-1.

This poses a serious risk to the entire U.S. population, which is now exposed to high levels of IGF-1 in dairy products, since elevated blood levels of IGF-1 are among the leading known risk factors for breast cancer, and are also associated with other major cancers, particularly colon and prostate.¹⁰ 

In 1994, Monsanto sued two dairies and threatened several thousand retailers for labeling or advertising milk and dairy products as "rBGH-free." Despite Monsanto's intimidation tactics, more than 10% of U.S. milk is currently labeled as "rBGH-free," while sales of organic milk and dairy products (which prohibit rBGH) are booming.

And just to add insult to injury, in recent months a Monsanto-funded front group, the Center for Consumer Freedom, has launched a smear campaign against organic dairies, including Organic Valley, claiming they are defrauding consumers. ¹¹

How Monsanto's policies have become U.S. policy

Prior to being the Supreme Court Judge who put G.W. in office, Clarence Thomas was Monsanto's lawyer. The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Anne Veneman) was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Calgene Corporation. The Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Searle pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Secretary of Health, Tommy Thompson, received $50,000 in donations from Monsanto during his winning campaign for Wisconsin's governor. The two congressmen receiving the most donations from Monsanto during the last election were Larry Combest (Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee) and Attorney General John Ashcroft. (Source: Dairy Education Board)

What can you do?

1. Contact your state representatives and let them know your views.
2. Educate yourself about what is really in our food.

Three recommended books:

Eric Schlosser, "Fast Food Nation" New York: Harper Collins, 2002.

Marion Nestle, Food Politics: "How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health." University of California Press, March 2002.

Marion Nestle, "Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism." University of California Press, March 2003.

1. Eat only organically grown and produced food. Sadly and unfortunately, we cannot trust the FDA or USDA to ensure the safety of our food.

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