US drug standards agency in court

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US Drug Standards Agency (FDA) Taken to Court

25/01/2008

The FDA has been regularly in the press under accusations of having a 'secret'

agenda of helping Big Pharma and Big Biotech maintain profits and increase their

markets. Now however, Public Citizen are taking them to court in order to force

them to to their job.

In their own words Public Citizen is a " national, nonprofit consumer advocacy

organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the

executive branch and the courts. "

The case in question is antibiotics which contain toxic fluoride. Public Citizen

want the dangers of these antibiotics to be listed on the product clearly and in

a black box. At the moment the warning is lost in the small print. As such an

obvious warning would result in lost sales and law suits, the FDA is refusing to

enforce this policy on & ´s and Levaquin and Bayer´s Cipro, the

two companies that make and market the antibiotic.

The antibiotic results in ruptured and damaged tendons

Initially Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to have them enforce the drug

companies to make the warning obvious. As the FDA did not heed them, they are

now taking legal action

Posted by Menzies-Trull

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