Word: fda
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...Administration Wednesday approved the first nicotine patch for sale without a prescription, hoping that more smokers will be induced to quit. Smokers have long called for the approval of nonprescription patches, which send more nicotine through the blood stream than the nicotine gum already available over the counter. The FDA's approval of McNeil Consumer Products' one-dose nicotine patch, Nicotrol, will give the company a marked edge over the competition by allowing its product -->
Well, not exactly. In 1994, in its first annual progress assessment, the FDA noted that a Red Cross quality-assurance plan submitted to meet the decree was "unacceptable," and that "several of your submissions on computer systems and databases are inadequate." According to the assessment, obtained by TIME under the Freedom of Information Act, at some blood centers the FDA's inspectors had found continued failures to keep accurate records and follow required testing procedures...
...sure, the Red Cross is finally showing some real progress. It opened a new training center, built nine central testing laboratories and began a costly centralization of its computer systems; the FDA's Simmons estimates it has achieved "75% to 80%" of what the consent decree requires. But the Red Cross still has much to prove. A second progress assessment--delivered in June 1995--applauded improved communication between the Red Cross and the FDA, but also included a long list of violations, some of them troubling. Its Birmingham unit, for instance, drew blood from donors with histories of malaria...
...organization a political edge and an unfair competitive advantage. "It's not reality. How could she come back?...How could any action that she would ever make be viewed objectively?" Especially if Bob Dole were to make good on his campaign promise to fire David Kessler, chief of the FDA...
...transvestite could enjoy the annual rite of trying on bathing suits. All year long you've been judged by your efficiency, your creativity, your managerial talents--and suddenly, when you enter that fitting room, the only operative criteria are tilt of breasts and firmness of thighs. Where is the FDA when you need it? There should be warning labels on every suit: this product may be hazardous to your self-esteem...