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FDA and off-label prescribing
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: If we are not careful, the practice of medicine will be taken away from your doctor. Off-label prescribing accounts for 21% of all prescriptions. “There’s nothing illegal…
FDA enabling Big Pharma (again and again)
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: sad but true. SOURCE Alliance for Natural Health USA <office@anh-usa.org> Big Pharma Whistles, and the Drug Enforcement Administration Comes Running April 10, 2012 Print This…
FDA allows illegal pesticide (and Prozac?!!) in poultry
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Your chicken on Prozac? “All 12 samples tested had between 2 and 10 antibiotic residues. In addition to antimicrobials, 7 other personal care…
FDA in ethical trouble again…
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/opinion/pursuit-of-the-whistle-blowers.html?_r=1&src=recg Editorial Pursuit of the Whistle-Blowers Published: February 14, 2012 A federal lawsuit filed against the Food and Drug Administration raises disturbing questions about whether the agency retaliated against whistle-blowers…
FDA’s screen (not steel) doors
SOURCE http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Government-industry_revolving_door Ann Mulkern, “When advocates become regulators,“ Denver Post, May 23, 2004: “President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for…
FDA allows banned drug in cattle
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: One of many government agencies operating on behalf of corporate interests with no accountability to citizens. http://www.prisonplanet.com/why-has-the-fda-allowed-a-drug-marked-not-safe-for-use-in-humans-to-be-fed-to-livestock-right-before-slaughter.html Why Has the FDA Allowed a Drug Marked ‘Not Safe…
Metallic iron “enriches” your cereal – view it and weep!
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Bravo to Tom Levy, M.D. for a simple and shocking demonstration that the FDA is allowing cereal companies to poison us with metallic iron filings! http://www.tomlevymd.com/video/video.html
The FDA meets the Amish
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: This is so sad. Tragic also. FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish Farm in PA In what used to be a free country it seems the FDA even want…
Why not let the patient/customer decide
More Effort Needed to Crack Down on ‘Secret Remedies’, Expert Argues ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) — The medical establishment and politicians must do more to crack down on alternative medicine,…
Good FDA action –
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: To their credit, the FDA is acting reasonably here. They are moving away from their position supporting the toxic BPA in plastics – after having uncritically relied…
