Guest guest Posted October 4, 1999 Report Share Posted October 4, 1999 ( It is the expectation that the United States Government will administer products approved for their intended use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, in the event that the Secretary considers a product to represent the most appropriate countermeasure for diseases endemic to the area of operations or to protect against possible chemical, biological, or radiological weapons, but the product has not yet been approved by the FDA for its intended use, the product may, under certain circumstances and strict controls, be administered to provide potential protection for the health and well-being of deployed military personnel in order to ensure the success of the military operation. The provisions of 21 CFR Part 312 contain the FDA requirements for investigational new drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 1999 Report Share Posted October 6, 1999 DSNurse@... wrote: > > From: DSNurse@... > > ( It is the expectation that the United States Government will > administer products approved for their intended use by the Food and Drug > Administration (FDA). However, in the event that the Secretary considers a > product to represent the most appropriate countermeasure for diseases > endemic to the area of operations or to protect against possible chemical, > biological, or radiological weapons, but the product has not yet been > approved by the FDA for its intended use, the product may, under certain > circumstances and strict controls, be administered to provide potential > protection for the health and well-being of deployed military personnel in > order to ensure the success of the military operation. The provisions of > 21 CFR Part 312 contain the FDA requirements for investigational new drugs. > > Translation: When the DoD feels like it they can use the U.S. military as guinea pigs without telling them as long as they give the FDA some good B.S. on the impending biological weapons attack from our enemies in a given area. In other words it is ok for the DoD to violate a soldier's basic human rights and to violate the Nuremburg Code which was put into place to prevent such testing of drugs on unsuspecting human beings from occuring in the name of warfare. This folks, is just plain illegal under international law. I wonder if any U.N. war crimes prosecutors would be interested in taking on the task of proving this. That would be interesting. As far as careful control and monitoring of such investigational drugs being used...hahaha we all know how careful the DoD is about that. G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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