“Don’t Take Supplements, but Feel Free to Electrocute Your Stomach!”
The FDA’s obesity “logic” hurts Americans—and endangers supplements. Action Alert!
The FDA’s obesity “logic” hurts Americans—and endangers supplements. Action Alert!
This time they try to save us from some of the most delicious and healthy cheeses.
Is this in part a pay-off to Big Pharma for campaign support?
“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.
How can schools create healthy meals when politicians interfere?
You can guess how that worked out. Action Alert!
The agency’s fumbling around on farm safety rules might seem comic—if the livelihood of small farmers and brewers weren’t at stake.
The famous Cleveland Clinic has opened a Chinese herbal medicine center, but Europe is virtually banning it. Action Alert!
And what doctors are prescribing as an alternative is just as dangerous. Action Alert!