Category: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Anonymous Statewide Grand Jury targets Fauci, public health officials for causing overdoses during COVID-19 pandemic
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org While the nation responds to the historic spectacle of a Manhattan jury convicting an ex-president of criminal activity, a statewide grand jury in Florida is moving under cover of secrecy toward a political reckoning on behalf of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin. From 1996 to 2002, Purdue pursued nearly every avenue in the drug supply and prescription sales chain — a strategy now cast as reckless and illegal in more than 1,500 federal civil lawsuits…
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First Amendment claims seen as Rx for drug makers, headache for consumers
By Paul Raeburn FairWarning Off-label promotion has long been considered a serious white-collar crime. The FDA has fined drug companies billions of dollars for off-label violations. The aim: to prevent them from overstating the benefits and understating the risks of their products, a practice known as misbranding – and one that sometimes leads to patients…
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Doubts raised about chemical stew in fragrances used in commercial products
By Brian Joseph, FairWarning For Joyce Miller, one sniff of scented laundry detergent can trigger an asthma attack. “What happens is I feel like someone is standing on my chest,” says the 57-year-old professor of library science in upstate New York. “It’s almost like a choking feeling – pressure and choking. And then the coughing…
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Racial politics flavor debate over banning menthol cigarettes
By Myron Levin FairWarning Lorillard Tobacco donated nearly four times as much to Republican candidates as to Democrats in the 2014 congressional elections. No surprise there — most businesses count on Republicans to hold the line on regulations and taxes. But Lorillard made a striking exception for one set of Democrats: African Americans.
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Tobacco industry batting a thousand with federal judge, while FDA strikes out
By Myron Levin Fair Warning What are the odds? In 2009, Congress passed landmark legislation directing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products, aiming to cut the toll from the leading preventable cause of disease and death. Three times since, however, cigarette and e-cigarette companies have filed successful legal challenges to thwart rules…