There's only one customer that should be at the table, and that's the American people. The American people should be the number one and only client of the FDA, and that's purely for safety of drugs.
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The FDA is short-staffed and has tight deadlines to approve new drugs. And then once a drug is on the market, the FDA has only limited power to monitor it for safety.
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[In 2003, there was a total of $139 million in public spending on just two classes of drugs, SSRI antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics.] A large portion of these dollars were spent to maintain children on these drugs, ... despite the fact that they have not been proven effective in children and the FDA has not approved them for use in children.
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Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
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Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards (in a speech about his bill backed by 37 senators to reduce the power of the FDA)
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The FDA still cannot honestly assure the public that milk is safe.
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