Incest and the FDA — Is the FDA Really a Watch Dog?

Drug Manufacturing is Big Business   The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the responsibility to protect the health of U.S. consumers by ensuring food, drugs and medical devices are safe. The FDA also has a mission to advance the health of U.S consumers by speeding innovations of such products. The latter is the reason the Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, the National Center for Health Research and a former FDA attorney are questioning whether the agency is fulfilling the former. But, is the FDA simply the proverbial fox guarding the hen house? Public Citizen argues the FDA is failing to use its authority to pull products from the market when there are a large number of adverse events associated with them and even when products harm or kill consumers. “Once products are on the market, it’s almost an insurmountable threshold to get the agency to take action to pull them from the market,” Michael Carome, the Public Citizen’s…

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