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...soft contact lenses [May 31] states that Griffin Laboratories "only last month received Food and Drug Administration approval to begin testing its product." To the contrary, the clinical testing commenced more than 18 months ago when an Investigational New Drug exemption for the Griffin lens was issued by the FDA. Since that date, the Griffin lens has been exhaustively researched and clinically tested by a number of ophthalmologists and optometrists, including some of the country's foremost authorities on corneal pathology. The lens has been used as a moist corneal soft-protective bandage and splint for various types...
...which will then 1) determine whether the complaint is justified, and, if so, 2) try to persuade the advertiser to correct or drop the offensive ad. Failing this, the board will publish its findings and turn the complaint over to the FTC or some other federal regulatory agency, the FDA, perhaps, or the Justice Department. Victor Elting, chairman of the National Advertising Advisory Committee-a group of top agency people and their clients, who are setting up the program-thinks that the review board will be able to move swiftly against misleading ads. Initially, the program will concern itself with...
When a New York chemistry professor announced that he had found mercury in canned tuna last December, the Food and Drug Administration began removing thousands of cans from grocery shelves for testing. Most of the tuna was subsequently pronounced safe for human consumption. Not so for swordfish. Last week FDA Chief Charles Edwards warned the public that 95% of all samples of swordfish tested were contaminated with mercury. Only 5% of 853 samples contained mercury below the .5 parts per million safety limit set by the FDA. The average level was twice that. Therefore, said Dr. Edwards, "the FDA...
...medical establishment has continued to take a hard line on Laetrile. The American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association oppose the drug on the grounds that its efficacy is unproved. So does the FDA, which says: "There is no evidence, either preclinical or clinical, that it would be effective. There is not the slightest hint that it would work...
Modest Fees. The FDA's order, however, did not stifle interest in the drug. Manufacturers in Mexico and Monaco are now producing Laetrile, and California's McNaughton Foundation, which also funds research in diabetes, parapsychology and heart disease, championed its cause. Nor did the FDA warning frighten the desperate. Since 1963, more than 2,500 American cancer sufferers, many of whom had given up on other treatments, have flocked to the Tijuana clinic, which is run by affable Dr. Ernesto Contreras, a graduate of the Mexican Army Medical School...