Technocrat

FDA Falling Behind

zogger
Wed Dec 05 12:51:32 -0800 2007
Health+and+Medicine
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The US Food and Drug Administration is falling behind because of lack of funding and an inability to keep up with scientific advances and the sheer volume of foods and drugs it is supposed to be overseeing. A new report outlines some of the failure points and offers recommendations.

.."The U.S. Congress passed more than 100 laws expanding the FDA's authority since 1988, but has not increased the funding appropriately, the report found."...more there. ed: Interesting stat in the article and the PDF linked download paper, they oversee one trillion worth of goods with a two billion dollar budget. I also think they need to get it straight, maintain a better separation between the USDA and the FDA, perhaps remove the F-food part from the FDA entirely and stick it in ag where it belongs. That might help some. The way it is now starts to look like the department of redundancy department.

The Interests of the Corporations

Bhima
Thu Dec 06 00:04:53 -0800 2007
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It makes no difference which part of the US government oversees this as long as the interests of the corporations trump the interests of the individual citizen.  Also if the FDA actually levied the fines allowed by law and then followed through and actually collected them I doubt there’d be much a of a budget shortfall.
 

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