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Five Ways the FDA Is Failing to Protect You


Health & Wellness  (tags: FDA, health, consumer info, personal care products, blog )

Mary
- 645 days ago - good.is
Time for a little policy talk, and a quick clarification: The Food and Drug Administration is as powerful as Congress makes it. So the headline is a little misleading (as most headlines are). It's not the FDA's fault, per se, that it can't protect you ...
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Roseann D. (149)
Thursday August 19, 2010, 7:52 pm
I'm sure there are more than five. Until they resolve their conflict of interest, and preference for drugs over food....I just don't take them seriously. They are Big Pharma's handmaidens.
 

Mary Coleman (156)
Thursday August 19, 2010, 7:59 pm
you are SOOOO right RD! Hell, there is probably more than 500!!! i wish I could send you another green star, but I've sent one too recently (probably yesterday, if memory serves)
 

Green Bee (1280)
Thursday August 19, 2010, 8:10 pm
The FDA does not even do test themselves anymore. They just take the words of the manufacturers.
 

Kit B. (269)
Thursday August 19, 2010, 8:26 pm
FDA???? I think I remember that, some government thingy we had before 2000?
 

Mary Coleman (156)
Thursday August 19, 2010, 8:31 pm
Do you, Phoenix, take Kit B to be your lawfully wedded wife? (i don't have one of those yet...but would it be legal? Nope, because I don't live----that's right----you guessed it!!! I don't live in Iowa, that same place that's under water)
 

Eileen Novak (448)
Thursday August 19, 2010, 8:55 pm
Another figure-head governmental bureaucracy. Spend money on letterhead and put the drones to work cleaning the highways. Why no read power? Makes one wonder, is the FBI pretend too? Does the Air Force have real planes, or do they just show us pictures they pulled off google? Can I pay my taxes with magic beans?
 

Sharon Balloch (136)
Friday August 20, 2010, 4:47 am
FIve ways eh? How come I am afraid to drink the water or eat the food.. and the meds... hell who knows what is killing us faster the drugs or the food..
Here in Canada we have the Canadas Food Guide.. and if you follow it correctly your be suffering until the end of your time on planet earth..and babies will be screaming with ear infections ..
 

Past Member (0)
Friday August 20, 2010, 8:33 am
Thanks Mary/noted/FDA is a joke
 

Care For All (46)
Friday August 20, 2010, 9:11 pm
For information about chemicals in many products, including foods, see the Environmental Working Group’s website: http://www.ewg.org/

Researchers at the Environmental Working Group are dedicated to exposing threats to your health and the environment, and to finding solutions. http://www.ewg.org/
 
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