Last week’s Supreme Court ruling shows how federal agencies harass small food and supplement companies on labeling and advertising, but let industry favorites ignore or stretch the same rules. Action Alert!
Is this in part a pay-off to Big Pharma for campaign support?
It wins first place on our list of Big Business’ Top Five sham “educational” websites.
“I certify that this compounded variation produces ‘a significant difference from the marketed drug version.’ ”
If Congress’s initial, knee-jerk reaction to the 2012 New England Compounding Center (NECC) meningitis tragedy had become law, you would have had to add this federally mandated disclaimer to every prescription you wrote for a compounded drug. It seems Congress, influenced by pharmaceutical industry lobbying dollars, wanted to reward the FDA’s failure to shut down grossly negligent compounding manufacturers—but did so by granting the agency vast new powers.
And once again, our country’s disadvantaged kids are being unnecessarily medicated nearly three times more often.
But it’s just a mirror for our own government’s “addiction” to prescription drugs and the drug industry. Is your physician taking kickbacks too?
We should look deeply into the mirror that the GSK/China scandal has provided for the US—what we see isn’t very pretty.
This is an actual label from a bag of Monsanto seed. These seeds may or may not be GMO, but notice the warning. Does it bother anyone that seeds are routinely coated with poison? This isn’t something that is even making headlines anymore. This is just business as usual in the world of modern farming. […]
Special interests may soon dictate what Internet content you are able to access. Action Alert!