Word: bacitracin
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...Bacitracin is a helpful antibiotic commonly used to treat cuts and abrasions. But now the substance has ended up in the middle of a bruising bureaucratic scrape. Last week a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that it lacked authority to order the Environmental Protection Agency to remove bacitracin from a list of 406 hazardous substances, where EPA officials concede that the drug landed by mistake...
...peremptorily added the antibiotic to its hazardous-substances roll call in 1985, using misinformation from another agency. The listing sets strictures only on the warehousing of more than 10,000 lbs. of the substance in one place. Even so, it is particularly vexing to a leading maker of bacitracin, New Jersey-based A.L. Laboratories, which is fighting to have the EPA erase its mistake. EPA officials say their administrative process is grinding its way to a decision on whether to make the change. But even they concede that things could drag on for at least another month before the makers...
From the chloroquine family of chemicals, Dr. Craig moved on to the penicillins, which were being produced under a wartime crash program. He has since turned to bacitracin (another anti-biotic), fatty acids, the master hormones of the pituitary gland, the hormones of the parathyroid, and insulin...
...Bacitracin ointment...
Every week U.S. physicians are being bombarded with samples and ads of prefabricated antibiotic combinations-penicillin with novobiocin, neomycin with bacitracin, oleandomycin with tetracycline, and dozens more. In addition, antibiotics are offered in combination with the sulfas or with unrelated items-anti-histamines, hormones, vitamins. Just how good are these package drugs...