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 …
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, issued a report this week on the effectiveness of the FDA to monitor drug safety. Their conclusion: “FDA LACKS COMPREHENSIVE DATA TO D ETERMINE WHETHER RISK EVALUATION AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES IMPROVE DRUG SAFETY.” From the report: …
Most imported seafood, including shrimp, is from large fish farms in Asia, including China, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. There are also seafood or fish farms in Canada, Mexico, and South America that export to the U.S. and others countries. Fish farming is just that. Breeding, cultivating, and harvesting fish …
How to live a longer life, surviving strokes, mammograms and the harm they can do, lowering breast cancer risk, and 5 top superfoods. Then, public health issues: a new kind of prescription drug FDA approved which you won’t believe. Then a commentary on the DSM, the psychiatric diagnostic bible. And …
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While most Americans were enjoying the holiday season or stressing out over the nation’s imminent leap off the so-called fiscal cliff, the Food and Drug Administration delivered some big news as quietly as possible. On December 21, the agency announced that AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon had cleared the final …
And turns a blind eye to allergic reactions from Big Farma’s favorite foods. In 2004 Congress passed the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA), which required that food labels state clearly when any of eight “major food allergens,” are present in the product. These eight …
Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year. On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environmental assessment [4] that found “no significant impact” from the controversial AquaBounty AquaAdvantage transgenic salmon. …
Over 140 nations have come together under a new treaty to curb deadly mercury pollution over serious risks to worldwide health, but meanwhile the FDA is still allowing the mass majority of US citizens to chomp down on mercury-containing processed foods. Specifically, mercury has actually been found in the highly popular genetically …
In September 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appeared primed to approve AquaBounty’s genetically engineered(GE) salmon, the hormone-enhanced fish that, nevertheless, can’t live up to its fast-growth hype. Trumpeting unprecedented transparency, the FDA released to the public hundreds of pages of the agency’s favorable risk assessment, along with an announcement of a …
The pyridoxamine example proves the inherent pitfalls in 21 USC 321(ff)(3)(A)-(B). As we have seen, the new interpretation given by FDA to the term “New Dietary Ingredient,” the FDA’s redefinition of adulteration standards through its Good Manufacturing Practice Guidelines, and the changes effected by the Food Safety Modernization Act in …
From headaches to heartburn, anxiety to cancer, there’s a pharmaceutical for everything these days. Few of us really bother reading the long list of side effects before popping a few pills, and we don’t question our doctors or the so-called medicine for which they make us break the bank. We …
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) became law in 2010. We, along with other consumer groups, were able to block some of the worst provisions of the proposed bill, but it was still flawed legislation as passed. The basic problem is that every time food safety problems emerge, the government …
The genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon, (AAS), often referred to as a “Frankenfish, is moving through the FDA approval process despite doubts raised at 2010 hearings, in scientific reports and by 400,000 consumers. The genetically modified salmon, created by Boston-based AquaBounty Technologies, is created to grow twice as fast as wild …
On December 21, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft environmental assessment (EA) finding, in spite of much evidence to the contrary, that genetically engineered (GE) AquaAdvantage salmon pose no risk to the environment. The document claimed that the fish “will not have any significant impacts on …
Questions are emerging about the breakdown of the federal government’s science integrity process in the wake of the Food & Drug Administration’s long-delayed release of its approval of the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. The AquAdvantage salmon developed byAquaBounty Technologies of Massachusetts—an Atlantic salmon modified with a growth hormone gene …