Word: fda
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...incidents of suspected product tampering that have been reported around the country in the month since those Chicago-area deaths, and the total swelled rapidly last week. It clearly has been inflated by the hysteria of consumers who blame any nausea or headache on poisoned food and medicine; the FDA so far judges only 36 of the incidents to be "hardcore, true tamperings." Still, that was more than enough to send real rather than make-believe chills coursing through many parents as Halloween approached...
Regarding the Tylenol tragedy [Oct. 111, FDA Deputy Commissioner Mark Novitch says there is no way to protect the public from having drugs tampered with. What happened to the sealed container? Liquor bottles are covered with a paper tape. If it's broken...
...Tylenol nightmare has managed to drive consumer-products makers and the Food and Drug Administration into a hasty alliance. Although companies have long accused the FDA of issuing meddlesome regulations, they are now anxiously seeking national packaging guidelines out of fear of a patchwork of new state and local requirements. The Proprietary Association, a trade group that represents manufacturers and distributors of 90% of over-the-counter Pharmaceuticals, has gone so far as to recommend rules that would cover all preparations that can be "ingested, inhaled, injected or inserted in the human body, or applied for ophthalmic use." Cook County...
...attempts to assess the merit of the doctors' charges have been inconclusive. An FDA investigation in August found that two out of 17 poultry samples from Puerto Rico were "suspect for estrogenic activity." Despite this, says FDA District Director Lynn Campbell, the analysis "has uncovered no evidence of the unlawful use or abuse of estrogen or hormone-like compounds...
...FDA has sent letters to chiropractors, who operate the majority of laser clinics, warning them that the procedure cannot be advertised as "safe and effective" and that prolonged use of the laser near the eyes can lead to retinal damage. Further action is hindered by the absence of complainants. Says Munna: "Try to get a patient to say, 'I went for a facelift, and it didn't work...