Word: fda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack took the form of a 293-page report called The Chemical Feast. It was based on a two-year study of the FDA by Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader and 20 student volunteers, most of them specialists in medicine and law. Their report accused the agency of conspiring with the food industry to defraud consumers and even to endanger their health; FDA regulations, they argued, read like a catalogue of favors to special interests. Specifically, the agency was accused of allowing the sale of "enriched white flour" that is actually stripped of most nutrients, of permitting meat packers to increase...
...businessmen, labor leaders, scientists and engineers, to conferences and conventions. "Man has created a new environment, but he has not created a new man," he argues. Johnson uses more than words to guard man against some of the threats of his self-imposed surroundings. Last spring, for example, after FDA scientists found unusually high levels of DDT in Lake Michigan coho salmon, Johnson helped to engineer a HEW order aimed at phasing out use of the chemical...
Despite these allegations, the University Health Services (UHS) will continue to give the pill to married women (Massachusetts law prohibits unmarried women from obtaining them) until either the American Cancer Society or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decides that it is harmful, a UHS spokesman said today...
Kistner said that in the ten years since the pill appeared on the market, the FDA had reported only one case of cervix cancer and one case of breast cancer in the millions of women using the pill...