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FOOD
AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION Sunday, February 03, 2008 07:10 PM . . |
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Agency Background |
Current Information |
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Food and Drug Administration has the duty as a government agency to
study food and drugs which are made available to the American
public.
Politically, it has moved to less strictness in administration during the Bush Administration, bringing serious criticism suggesting the FDA caters to pharmaceutical companies and makes drugs which have serious risks to people available. A number of serious problems with food products, including fish, shrimp, lettuce, spinach and similar foods has caused huge issues for the FDA in the last eighteen months. Demands have been made for more inspections and better science to protect the American consumer. The agency has taken substantial political management pressure during the Bush Administration on issues related to birth control, abortion drugs, and other matters that relate to the female fertility issues - causing great controversy in the United States. The general willingness of Republicans to meddle in any government agency that governs or regulates business conduct - particularly bad business conduct - has been a huge problem for the FDA during the Bush Administration. Part of the GOP control process is to edit science papers to make the fit the lies they wish to peddle, to fire people who refuse to compromise the truth or who do not put out the political chat required to protect a misbehaving manufacturer - and to limit budgets in regulatory agencies. The general suppression of fact has caught up with the agency under GOP control in recent months. |
. . September 21 2007 - Two thousand FDA employees faced pink slips at this end of this week before the Congress passed legislation to fund the agency beyond the President's wishes. Basically, the misconduct of politicians has been bringing disaster to the FDA's primary mission. The change in policy in the last 48 hours is probably heading the agency back toward a more objective and thorough protector of human folk in the United States. (And, a few pets, as well - pet products were added into the jurisdiction of the FDA this week. Unfortunately one of the reasons is that poor people often eat inexpensive pet foods to round out insufficient food budgets - so we protect the pet foods for both types of animal - human and pet.) |
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