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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What?s a self-respecting slob to do? Turn to the ever-reliable red meat? Not likely, after the e.coli scare caused by the largest ever recall of ground beef in the nation?s history. And as if couch potatoes weren?t infuriated enough by the sight of FDA swat teams swarming over hamburger patties like flies on the proverbial, they were also treated to the disgustingly healthy sight of all those UPS workers being active again. Not to mention the trim Mir cosmonauts and their astronautical acrobatics. As if to rub it in, the very first space commercial released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 8/24/1997 | See Source »

...Food and Drug Administration might be reluctant to green-light the drug. That's because the FDA's pressure prompted Hoechst-Marion-Roussel to pull probucol from the market two years ago: The drug lowers the body's levels of artery-protecting "good" cholesterol by 40 percent, a definite drawback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cholesterol Fighter Taken to Heart | 8/7/1997 | See Source »

While much attention has been given to the effects which the settlement may have on the FDA's authority to regulate, little has been devoted to the consequences for tort law, Hanson said...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Harvard News In Brief | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...fen/phen. The FDA approved fenfluramine and phentermine more than 20 years ago, but the drugs' synergistic effect has never been vetted in a large-scale clinical trial, and the FDA never gave its blessing to their combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER IN THE DIET PILLS? | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...elated at the empowerment of the FDA to regulate tobacco and the nicotine content of cigarettes. But, sadly, this is a step that should have been taken 50 years ago, when Bogie and Bacall first made smoking the chic way to die. SARAH ANASTASIA OLYNYK, age 14 Shaker Heights, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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