| The
Food and Drug Administration has the duty as a government agency to
study food and drugs which are made available to the American
public.
Politically,
it has moved to less strictness in administration during the Bush
Administration, bringing serious criticism suggesting the FDA caters to
pharmaceutical companies and makes drugs which have serious risks to
people available.
A number of
serious problems with food products, including fish, shrimp, lettuce, spinach
and similar foods has caused huge issues for the FDA in the last
eighteen months. Demands have been made for more inspections and
better science to protect the American consumer.
The agency has
taken substantial political management pressure during the Bush
Administration on issues related to birth control, abortion drugs, and
other matters that relate to the female fertility issues - causing great
controversy in the United States.
The general
willingness of Republicans to meddle in any government agency that
governs or regulates business conduct - particularly bad business
conduct - has been a huge problem for the FDA during the Bush
Administration. Part of the GOP control process is to edit science
papers to make the fit the lies they wish to peddle, to fire people who
refuse to compromise the truth or who do not put out the political chat
required to protect a misbehaving manufacturer - and to limit budgets in
regulatory agencies.
The general suppression
of fact has caught up with the
agency under GOP control in recent months. |
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September
21 2007 - Two thousand FDA employees
faced pink slips at this end of this week before the Congress passed
legislation to fund the agency beyond the President's wishes.
Basically, the misconduct of politicians has been bringing disaster to the
FDA's primary mission. The change in policy in the last 48 hours is
probably heading the agency back toward a more objective and thorough
protector of human folk in the United States. (And, a few pets, as
well - pet products were added into the jurisdiction of the FDA this
week. Unfortunately one of the reasons is that poor people often eat
inexpensive pet foods to round out insufficient food budgets - so we
protect the pet foods for both types of animal - human and pet.) |
