Word: fda
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...parent, Germany's huge Hoechst chemical company, feared a pro-life boycott of its American products if it allowed RU 486 to be marketed in the U.S. And Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
Chow found that when he combined AZT and ddl, two common anti-AIDS drugs approved by the FDA, with Pyrodine, which inhibits DNA duplication by HIV-1, the virus could no longer replicate to infect other cells...
...available source of the hormone was the pituitary glands of butchered cows, which yield only minute quantities. Then, in 1982, scientists used new gene-splicing techniques to manipulate bacteria into mass-producing BGH. By the mid-1980s, four drug companies -- including Monsanto and Eli Lilly -- had applied to the FDA for permission to market the product...
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the FDA have found that, in fact, there is no elevated level of BGH in the milk of cows who received the hormone. "Milk from treated and untreated cows is functionally and biologically the same," asserts Lisa Watson, a Monsanto spokeswoman, who points to a list of scientific groups, including the American Medical Association, that endorse the safety of milk from BGH-treated cows...
Last week's events put FDA Commissioner Kessler in the hot seat. Kessler made his mark as a champion of consumers' rights and clear food labeling. But there are cases where labeling creates a misleading impression, and this may be one of them. "Where do you draw the line?" asks a policy expert at the FDA. "Do you label all the biotech products? Do you list all the fertilizers? All the pesticides...