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This evidence, published by doctors from the University of Seattle and the Kaiser Institute in Los Angeles this fall, has led federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials to push for tighter restrictions on drugs containing estrogen...
...made from dried potatoes" must be labeled exactly that, and the last four words must appear on the can in type at least half as large as the words potato chip (on Pringle's cans they now appear in small print easy to overlook). For good measure, the FDA slapped a similar restriction on makers of other "restructured" foods, like fish sticks made from minced fish. To P.&G.'s competitors, it is a hollow victory: Pringle's, after all, can still call itself a potato chip, sort of. And because the FDA plans to issue some...
...countries in the decade beginning in 1962, a mere 21 were first made available only in the U.S. In fact, at the beginning of the decade, 77 drugs, including many that U.S. physicians now consider not only safe but effective (see box), were not authorized by the FDA...
...report has found few supporters at the FDA. The agency's current commissioner, Alexander Schmidt, concedes that there is a drug lag between the U.S. and other countries. But he denies that U.S. patients have suffered as a result. "There have been no significant therapeutic breakthroughs in other countries that this country has gone without," says...
Schmidt, in fact, insists that the FDA can move quickly when it has to and will waste no time getting something like a proven anticancer drug or a more effective new antibiotic introduced in the U.S. But until such a product comes along, he will enforce his agency's standards, designed to be safe rather than fast...