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  Feb 4, 2014 26

  Powerful Anti-Supplement Congressman Henry Waxman Retires

  Whew! We won’t soon forget the all-night conference committee meeting in which Waxman tried to slip in an anti-supplement amendment written so that even a lawyer could not understand it. (more…)...

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  May 10, 2019 1

  Court to EPA: Stop Stalling

  …on a decision to ban a brain-damaging pesticide. A federal court has ordered the EPA to decide by mid-July whether to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that has been linked to neurodevelopmental effects in children. Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate, which were chemicals de...

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  Aug 5, 2014 30

  Insurance Company Drug Managers Now Deciding What’s Medically “Necessary”

  Compounded medications aren’t being covered—which means FDA-approved drugs will own the marketplace. Action Alert! Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are companies that process prescriptions for insurance companies and corporations, and use their size to negotiate low prices with drug makers an...

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  Mar 2, 2010 10

  FDA Memo Blasts Diabetes Medicine Avandia

  As the mainstream media have gradually exposed the scandal of unpublished drug-risk studies (for example, the Celebrex/Vioxx affair), the concept of risk-to-benefit analysis has entered public consciousness. While consumers are aware that all prescription drugs come with risks, few know how to weigh...

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  Sep 30, 2008 0

  The FDA Considers Proposals to Sell Genetically Engineered Animals as Food

  The Food and Drug Administration has released proposed guidelines for regulating genetically engineered animals, paving the way for them to enter the food supply. This news has stunned many consumer groups. It is estimated that as many as two dozen applications to sell genetically engineered an...

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  Mar 12, 2013 47

  FDA Now Censoring Consumer Free Speech on the Internet

  Or, to be more precise, demanding that supplement companies do it on their orders. Action Alert! (more…)...

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  Sep 8, 2015 22

  Bioidentical Hormones Threatened

  Will the FDA allow massive drug companies to eliminate your access to compounded bioidentical hormones? Action Alerts! Recently, the FDA released a list of nominations to its “Demonstrably Difficult to Compound” (DDC) list. This list derives from section 503A of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act....

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  Sep 20, 2016 3

  Will Monsanto Now Try To Hide?

  A $66 billion buyout by the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer could make it harder for consumers to avoid products from the biotech behemoth. Action Alert! The number of companies controlling our food supply is about to shrink even further now that Bayer has bought Monsanto for $66 billion in cash,...

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  Feb 9, 2010 23

  GAO Hounds Supplement Makers

  The government’s growing involvement in the dietary-supplement industry strikes many as a waste of the people’s time and treasure. (more…)...

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  Nov 16, 2017 1

  Why Flu Shots Are So Ineffective

  New evidence tells us why flu vaccines are only 43% effective, at best, using the most favorable statistics. From Scientific American: Last year’s flu vaccine should have worked well. The strain that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose for the seasonal vaccine did indeed closely match the ...