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Same day, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (who used to be a pharmacist himself) summoned his Government Operations subcommittee to hear FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick and Pharmacologist Kelsey. Canadian-born Dr. Kelsey, 48, a low-heeled, no-nonsense woman who has practiced medicine besides teaching pharmacology, was a new employee at FDA in September 1960. Her first major assignment was to pass on the application of Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. for a license to market thalidomide in the U.S. under the trade name Kevadon.* Along with the application came a sheaf of reports on years...
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...Does the FDA think that it is serving the public interest when it condemns as false a concept of obesity control merely because it -is contrary to the preponderant conventional beliefs? We believe that much of the tremendous success of the book is due to the satisfaction of readers with the results they obtained through following the dietary regimen recommended in the book. We consider that we had an absolute right to publish a theory of diet by a reputable physician...
What got Taller into trouble with the law was that first printings of the book included an endorsement of a specific manufacturer of safflower oil (CDC capsules), and copies of the book were used to pro mote the capsules. (They are now off the market, following FDA action.) In court proceedings. Dr. Taller refused to answer more than 50 questions about his financial relationship with the corporation that manufactured the capsules...
...Said FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a financial interest." To this, Simon & Schuster retorted: "There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious and irresponsible innuendoes...