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...supplements, the usual source of such overdoses. But all eight routinely drank milk from a single dairy. And when doctors tested samples of the milk, they were shocked to find that it had up to 500 times the vitamin D level marked on the label and recommended by the FDA. Worse yet, a wider study covering 13 brands of milk in five Eastern states turned up levels well below or appreciably above the suggested dosage. Infant formulas tended to be the highest, while some skim milk had no D at all. The doctors, whose report appeared in last week...
...FDA approves DDC the manufacturer, Hoffmann-La Roche, will be required to submit further studies on the drug's safety and efficacy...
RESTRICTING IMPLANTS: Silicone-gel breast implants are suspected of triggering deformity and disease. An expert panel recommended in February that their use be restricted, and FDA Commissioner David Kessler now agrees. Only women whose implants are leaking and need replacement or who need reconstructive surgery will get them...
...parades and space launches and water we could drink. But our space program is a galaxy-wide embarrassment. Our regulatory agencies are so feeble that factories burn down with the workers still in them and even the President has taken a hallucinogenic sleeping pill blithely approved by the FDA. Infrastructure is a thing of the past. As for the widows and orphans, they can be found massing around the Dumpsters, searching for viable crusts. Too bad 1040 forms aren't edible. Too bad we can't use them to patch up our bridges...
Last February the FDA rejected as premature applications by vitamin makers to promote folic acid as a means of preventing neural-tube birth defects, antioxidants as a hedge against cancer, and zinc as a booster of aging immune systems. Both federal and state regulatory agencies have been cracking down on nutrient health claims. The FDA says it will hold label claims to standards similar to those applied to drugs. Advises Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health: "At this time I say don't take megadoses, but I'm not ruling out that in two or three...