If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and …
A particularly disgusting method used to inflate drug prices is the filing of frivolous lawsuits against generic drug makers. Each day a court delays approval of a lower-cost generic can enable a pharmaceutical company to earn millions of dollars in illicit revenue.Health care corruption is driving this nation into economic insolvency. It thus becomes cost-efficient for pharmaceutical companies to initiate …
In recent weeks, Congress has been looking into last year’s outbreak of meningitis, which killed 53 people and injured more than 700 Americans in 20 states. The cause was a tainted steroid distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC), which is part of an obscure $2 billion-a-year niche of the pharmaceutical …
We rely on our government to keep us safe. Whether it’s the threat of violence or unsafe products, most believe that our government will watch out for us and protect us. So why is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowing food and beverage makers to use an untested and …
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its public statement on bisphenol A, a chemical commonly found in some plastics as well as can linings, in March 2013. The FDA’s “current perspective on BPA” is that the chemical is “safe” at the exposure levels from product packaging. Their position is …
Researchers who have exposed environmental or health-related risks from genetically modified crops have faced harassment, threats and worse. IFEX explains how these attacks threaten your right to know about where your food comes from As the U.S. and the world braced themselves for the results of one of the …
There are now an astonishing 90 million people absent from the US labor force. NPR reports: “Every month, 14 million Americans get a disability check from the government.” “In Hale County, Alabama, nearly 1 in 4 working-age adults is on disability.” As of December 2012, 47 million Americans were …
OK. If they do, how about dropping the effectiveness test for food or supplements used to treat Alzheimer’s? Action Alert! [1] The US Food and Drug Administration was originally charged only with ensuring the safety of foods and drugs. But in 1962, Congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Amendment [2], also called the Drug Efficacy Amendment. …
Last week, multiple news articles reported 44% of American parents refusing Gardasil or Cervarix for their children. Between 2008 and 2010, the percentage of parents concerned about the safety of these two vaccines nearly quadrupled. As of 2010, only 32% of eligible girls were vaccinated against HPV. What is …
What’s it like inside a factory farm? If the livestock and meat industries have their way, what little view we have inside the walls of these animal-reviewing facilities may soon be obscure. For the second year in a row, the industry is backing bills in various statehouses that would …
The Cornucopia Institute formally requested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remove the common additive carrageenan from the US food supply. Last year the FDA rejected a 2008 citizen petition, which presented scientific studies linking carrageenan to gastrointestinal inflammation and disease, including cancer. The petition was filed by Dr. Joanne Tobacman, …
If you watched CBS News 60 Minutes last night, you witnessed the kind of misleading reporting that enables federal agencies to gain unbridled power. 60 Minutes accurately told the story of an unscrupulous manufacturer of contaminated drugs that caused 48 deaths and over 700 serious illnesses. 60 …
After two years of delay, the Food Safety Modernization Act is finally about to go into effect. The FDA is moving forward with rules that are supposed to make food in the United States the safest in the world. Hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of farm and food …
The FDA has taken a freely-available herbal product, sap of the dragon’s blood tree, defined it as the drug Fulyzac, & handed it to Big Pharma. Nature’s gift is being polluted. What you get after Big Pharma and & the FDA get their hands on it has lost much …
Although market leaders in the supplement industry appear to be coping with the present recession, most are experiencing a downturn in sales and a few are doing better than in prior years. The bulk of small to mid-sized companies are struggling, caught in a squeeze between a dramatic reduction …