Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal agencies regulating business and consumer affairs, none is more regularly or vehemently denounced than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Critics have variously blasted it as arbitrary, ill-organized, arrogant, inbred and inept. There is a reason for the scourging: the FDA affects both consumers and manufacturers where they are most sensitive-in the products that they can buy or sell. The agency regulates everything from lipstick to kidney dialysis machines. All told, the FDA activity touches on 200 of every consumer dollar spent. Says an agency public relations man proudly: "The FDA intrudes on your life...
...saccharin as a food additive (TIME, March 21). Last week the FDA decided to hedge a little. Newly appointed Commissioner Donald Kennedy announced that the agency will go ahead with the ban, probably by midsummer -but will allow saccharin to be sold, like aspirin, as an over-the-counter drug, at least until the end of the year...
...Touch of Cynicism. Kennedy's ruling was an obvious bit of political backpedaling to escape the explosion of consumer fury caused by the original decree. It was also a somewhat clubfooted end run around the so-called Delaney clause of the 1958 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which dictates the banning of any food additives that cause cancer in humans or laboratory animals. In the case of saccharin, some Canadian rats developed bladder cancer when they were fed the sweetener in amounts that would be equivalent, in a human, to 800 cans of diet soda...
...agency was founded in 1907 under crusading Pure-Food Advocate Harvey Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture. In 1938, after 107 people died from use of a sulfanilamide preparation that was supposed to be a cure-all for diseases like strep throat, Congress passed a strengthened Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, providing the cornerstone for the FDA's current powers to enforce health, purity and labeling regulations...
...Frances Kelsey kept that tranquilizer from sale in the U.S.-though it was marketed in Europe and Canada, where its use by pregnant women led to the birth of many deformed babies. Critics, however, can cite another name from the same period: MER29. The FDA approved that anticholesterol drug for use, then rescinded the decision when some people who took it developed cataracts...