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"Under heavy political influence, the agency has come increasingly prone to favor drug-company profits over consumer safety. The president of the United States appoints the FDA commissioner, Congress directly supervises the agency, and both the president and the Congress are eager to stay in favor with the enormously wealthy and powerful pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, when Prozac was going through the final approval process, the president and the vice president were especially responsive to the needs of the drug's manufacturer, Eli Lilly." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"That was a watershed for consumer safety. It also marks the modern age of biostatistics and epidemiology: methodologies had to be devised to serve this mandate and revised repeatedly. Every nsaid since has had to pass fda muster. The following is true about every nsaid that has been approved: 1. Every approved nsaid has been shown to be more effective than placebo. 2. No approved nsaid has been shown to be less effective than aspirin. 3. No approved nsaid has been shown to be more effective than aspirin. 4. No approved nsaid has been shown to be safer than aspirin." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The testimony stated that the new DSOB "will enhance the independence of internal deliberations and decisions regarding risk/benefit analyses and consumer safety."55 The goals for the DSOB are commendable and needed, but I can assure you the new board will not look at how the antidepressant drug studies are designed (Chapter 7, Tricks of the Trade), the actual effectiveness of antidepressants (Chapter 8, Do Antidepressants Work?) or the side effects of these drugs (Chapters 10, 11 & 13). The controversy and costs would be too great." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"November 2003: An FDA consumer safety Officer reported evidence of extensive bacterial contamination of the equipment and environmental samples in Monsanto's manufacturing plant in Austria. December 2003: Monsanto admitted to "corrections and improvements" undertaken in its Austrian plant. January 2004: Monsanto admitted that Posilac supplies would be cut in half through the end of the year." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "Current concerns on the potential hazards of BGH are such that they will not be allayed by generalities and assurances of responsibility of FDA with regard to consumer safety, particularly in view of the track record of the agency, in general, and the Center for Veterinary Medicine in particular, as illustratively documented in my report. Nor will such concerns be allayed by the promise that the FDA intends publishing a scientific paper on this subject in early 1990, some six years after the FDA has allowed the sale of unlabeled hormone-treated milk to the general public." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Moreover, an FDA consumer safety officer told me that "the safety of stevia has been questioned by published studies. And no one has ever provided the FDA with adequate evidence that the substance is safe." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Aspartame consumer safety Network website, http://www.aspartamesafety.com/. Aspartame (NutraSweet) Toxicity Info Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/. Austin Business Journal. "Texas Consumer Group Is Sour on Splenda Sweetener," January 31, 2005. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2005/01/31/daily6.html. Bailey, Bill. "What Is Stevia Rebaudiana and Is It Safe?" http://www.lowcarbnexus.com/articles/stevia. html. Barrett, Stephen. "Stevia: Is It safe?" http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/QA/ stevia.html. Bastin, Sandra. "Nonnutritive Sweeteners." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Estee Lauder spokeswoman Janet Bartucci said the company would review the Friends of the Earth report, and gave assurances that "consumer safety has always been a top priority at the Estee Lauder Companies." Lisa Archer from Friends of the Earth said she thinks corporations should "stop treating their customers like guinea pigs" by putting nanoparticles into personal care products before the materials are proven safe. In the absence of federal regulations, some cities are trying to get a handle on the situation." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Bacterial Contamination This information was based on a routine November 2003 inspection by Rebecca Rodriguez, an FDA consumer safety Officer, of the Sandoz pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Kundl, Austria. Kundl is the sole manufacturer of Posilac. Rodriguez reported nine sterility failures and bacterial contamination in the facility environment, its equipment, and raw materials from 2001 to 2003. "In five instances, the bacteria were identified as Propkmibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus and Bacillus pumilus." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"So while rules can never supplant innovation and creativity, they can at least ensure a minimum level of consumer safety and restrict destructive practices. As it turns out, not all manufacturers make reducing our cancer risk their first priority. Outside the European Union, which recently mandated new restrictions on hazardous substances, most governments are doing very little, and moving very slowly to do it. This makes the flip side of legislation, the certification scheme, so interesting: it is the carrot to legislation's stick." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"It is best if Americans wake up to the fact that the greed and profits of drug companies clearly trump consumer safety. The money of Big Pharma controls Congress, the White House, and the FDA. Billions of Dollars Are at Stake The world of expensive new designer drugs generated $42 billion in sales in 2004. It is projected to hit $69 billion in 2006 and grow at a rate of twenty to fifty percent per year. Twenty billion dollars a year are spent on drugs that affect the mind. It is easy to see why Wall Street, the financial center for funding new business activity, is so interested." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The problems with HRT are not just those about replacing hormones, of which there are many; they are also problems of the pharmaceutical industry, systems of medical welfare and consumer safety in advanced societies. The ten years to 2005 revealed an increasing number of serious problems in relation to the pharmaceutical industry. While pharmaceutical marketing techniques and billion-dollar budgets have driven drug sales up at the expense of safety, bad drugs have killed hundreds of thousands of patients." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Corporate profits garner a much higher priority than consumer safety, as is obvious to anyone who is familiar with the consistent actions of both agencies in this area. But the USDA wasn't always like that. In fact, they tried to ban sodium nitrite decades ago... The USDA tried to ban sodium nitrite in the 1970s Even when these agencies try to do the right thing, political pressure from the food industry makes it virtually impossible. On September 19, 1977, a USDA advisory committee on nitrosamines asked the meat industry to find replacements for nitrites in meats." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "In 1988, the Aspartame consumer safety Network installed a private hot line to receive inquiries from pilots who are in jeopardy of losing their flying licenses because of seizure episodes from the use of aspartame. Since 1988, more than six hundred calls have been made to the confidential hot line. One caller noted that "after just two cups of NutraSweetened hot chocolate, a pilot experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable to read instruments on his panel and very narrowly avoided a tragic landing. Safely on the ground, he related his story to the coworkers in his office." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"Food & consumer safety Inspectors, working on the front lines of the meat, poultry & egg products industries, usually under miserable conditions, safeguarding the American food supply." At the time (it has since been sold), the Community Nutrition Institute published Nutrition Week, a newsletter that tracks current events in food and nutrition. Both were run by Rodney Leonard, long an outspoken advocate of improved food safety. Mr." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"According to the Aspartame consumer safety Network information, "The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressive contraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage, and blindness." - Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers In this way, a human being who consumes a six-pack of diet soft drinks made with aspartame is actually a walking EPA violation. That person technically carries enough methanol in their own body to qualify as toxic waste and be subjected to federal environmental laws." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

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