FDA Whines About Unapproved Drugs, Claims It Doesn't Have Resources—While Raiding Raw Milk Farms

Photo by Tim McAteer with Police Sign Replaced by FDA Logo Creative Commons License

'The Food and Drug Administration is whining because they don't have adequate staff to catch all—or even a small percentage—of the unapproved drug manufacturers. At the same time, they have no trouble finding plenty of money to conduct SWAT operations on raw milk farms and health food stores. The serious problem of dangerous unauthorized chemicals being prescribed by doctors receives minimal support from the FDA, while a bigger and bigger force is being ramped up to place foods and herbs into the class of drugs, and criminalize them.'


Read more...

Read more »

FDA System Approves Nonexistent Product from Nonexistent Company for Human Testing

'A sting nailed a company the HHS authorized to oversee human drug trials. The absurdities in the application are belly laugh funny, but in their rush to keep the money coming, they approved it. The FDA farms out drug and medical device testing. It’s in the hands of the companies hoping to gain approval for their products, but they must first get approval before doing tests on humans. 

Even here, though, there’s a catch. The FDA doesn’t review the testing plans. That’s done by more for-profit companies, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). But it gets worse. The IRBs are paid by the companies hoping to gain FDA approval for their products. So, it’s a conflict of interest on top of a conflict of interest.' 

Read more...

Read more »