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Ever since the Food and Drug Administration's careful checking procedures saved the U.S. from the 1961 thalidomide disaster, the agency's critics have accused it of becoming overcautious and of needlessly delaying the marketing of valuable new drugs. This week the FDA stands accused of just the opposite-of having too hastily approved a drug that may not be safe enough for widespread...
...FDA Commissioner James Lee Goddard refused to back down. "The risks involved in using the drug were weighed against the possible benefits," he said in an interview in Medical Tribune. Information sent to physicians, he added, warns them against possible adverse reactions. And he promised continued cautious monitoring in the hope of finding ways to avoid them...
...Food and Drug Administration proposed, and the Borden Foods Co. agreed last week that all stocks of the company's powdered-milk product, Starlac, were to be recalled from stores. Reason: FDA microbiologists had found that some samples of Starlac contained salmonella bacteria, which can cause severe diarrheal disease. No cases of salmonellosis have yet been attributed to Starlac, but neither the FDA nor Borden was taking chances. The company also recalled powdered Frosted Shakes, packaged in the Starlac plant...
Starlac was not the first dried-milk product in which salmonella bacilli have been detected. Since the U.S. Public Health Service traced a 1965 outbreak of salmonellosis to powdered milk from a Midwestern processor, the FDA has been systematically examining the plants of 27 manufacturers of instant nonfat dried milk...
...FDA's crackdown is part of an intensified nationwide effort at drug control. The Bureau of Drug Abuse Control now has 120 agents across the country investigating sources of illegal drug supply...