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...quarantined, dying slowly of PBB-related diseases. But many animals were sold before the state realized the danger. Over 10,000 people in the state, mostly farmers, now have traces of PBB in their bodies that exceed the danger level for cattle set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No one knows what the long range effects of PBB are, but many of the farm families are experiencing the same symptons that afflicted their ailing cattle...
...workers in the United States is exposed to some serious occupational hazards. The portion of the American public that comes into contact with hazardous substances leaked into the environment is not known. The level of most chemicals in the environment does not exceed the tolerance levels established by the FDA. However, many of these legally safe levels can become dangerous when they remain in the environment for long periods of time, penetrate the food chain and accumulate in the human body...
...named its product Disease and obtained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 1963 for its use as an investigational new drug for humans. In twelve years doctors treated some 15,000 patients, and reported that symptoms were relieved in most cases. Meanwhile, Baxter Travenol had applied to the FDA for approval of Disease as a prescription item for any licensed physician...
...would have taken effect on October 1, but FDA Commissioner Dr. Donald Kennedy '52 postposed the directive pending Congressional action...
...FDA administrators "are disappointed" by the House's action, an FDA aide, who asked not to be identified said yesterday. "Based on animal studies and scientific extrapolation from those studies, we think the likelihood is very high that additional cases of bladder cancer will result from this delay in the ban," he added...