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I don’t see how. FDA is widely respected.

by firesteelrain 1y ago

nathan_compton 1y ago
15 years ago the president was widely respected.
- hinkley 1y ago
  16 years ago not so much.
  - amluto 1y ago
    In both cases, the FDA was generally run and staffed by non-political people who were at least vaguely competent. I have plenty of issues with how the FDA operated, but it didn’t matter much who was president. Today, most of the Cabinet positions are held by people who love to talk, who are generally extremely wealthy and/or well connected, and who are generally unqualified for their jobs. And, even more relevantly, they have been very heavily interfering in the operation of their respective departments.
labster 1y ago
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- dmoy 1y ago
  Oh man did rfk jr actually do something with flouride, like directly out of the movie? I haven't been paying a ton of attention to rfk's actions.
thfuran 1y ago
The FDA has been approving generics from factories known to have repeatedly failed prior audits or had products recalled for quality issues without re-inspecting the factories or inspecting the drugs on import. And they're doing it via a special process that bypasses the ordinary review process and over the objections of many of the inspectors.
- reginald78 1y ago
  Was just reading about this one a few weeks ago, I couldn't find the article again but I believe it was based around the book Bottle of Lies. Basically the political pressure to keep drugs available and costs down has them looking the other way. And it has been going on since at least the Obama administration IIRC.
protocolture 1y ago
Is it? Australia wont import FDA certified beef. For great reason.
- firesteelrain 1y ago
  I think you mean USDA. Australia doesn’t allow most USDA beef because of strict biosecurity rules. Australia’s one of the world’s biggest beef exporters. There’s not much incentive for them to open the door to a competitor unless the protocols align perfectly.
  - protocolture 1y ago
    So the FDA has no hand in Beef?
    - firesteelrain 1y ago
      To my knowledge no
s_dev 1y ago
Not after the opioid crisis in the US. That was the job of the FDA to prevent that exact scenario. They approved Purdue Pharma opioids for non-chronic usage when European/Canadian regulators did not. Hence why the crisis was largely contained to the United States.
- nickff 1y ago
  Canada has had many opioid-related overdoses and deaths: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/opioids-stimulants/ https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/op... The numbers seems roughly proportional to US opioid deaths (though I haven’t taken a detailed look, and there may be differences in the way deaths are categorized): https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates#Fig4 https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...

I don’t see how. FDA is widely respected.

nathan_compton 1y ago

15 years ago the president was widely respected.

hinkley 1y ago
16 years ago not so much.
- amluto 1y ago
  In both cases, the FDA was generally run and staffed by non-political people who were at least vaguely competent. I have plenty of issues with how the FDA operated, but it didn’t matter much who was president. Today, most of the Cabinet positions are held by people who love to talk, who are generally extremely wealthy and/or well connected, and who are generally unqualified for their jobs. And, even more relevantly, they have been very heavily interfering in the operation of their respective departments.

labster 1y ago

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dmoy 1y ago
Oh man did rfk jr actually do something with flouride, like directly out of the movie? I haven't been paying a ton of attention to rfk's actions.

thfuran 1y ago

The FDA has been approving generics from factories known to have repeatedly failed prior audits or had products recalled for quality issues without re-inspecting the factories or inspecting the drugs on import. And they're doing it via a special process that bypasses the ordinary review process and over the objections of many of the inspectors.

reginald78 1y ago
Was just reading about this one a few weeks ago, I couldn't find the article again but I believe it was based around the book Bottle of Lies. Basically the political pressure to keep drugs available and costs down has them looking the other way. And it has been going on since at least the Obama administration IIRC.

protocolture 1y ago

Is it? Australia wont import FDA certified beef. For great reason.

firesteelrain 1y ago
I think you mean USDA. Australia doesn’t allow most USDA beef because of strict biosecurity rules. Australia’s one of the world’s biggest beef exporters. There’s not much incentive for them to open the door to a competitor unless the protocols align perfectly.
- protocolture 1y ago
  So the FDA has no hand in Beef?
  - firesteelrain 1y ago
    To my knowledge no

s_dev 1y ago

Not after the opioid crisis in the US. That was the job of the FDA to prevent that exact scenario. They approved Purdue Pharma opioids for non-chronic usage when European/Canadian regulators did not. Hence why the crisis was largely contained to the United States.

nickff 1y ago
Canada has had many opioid-related overdoses and deaths: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/opioids-stimulants/ https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/op... The numbers seems roughly proportional to US opioid deaths (though I haven’t taken a detailed look, and there may be differences in the way deaths are categorized): https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates#Fig4 https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...