Word: larrick
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Died. George P. Larrick, 66, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 1954 to 1965; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. As head of FDA, Larrick fought for stiffer regulations of food additives, in 1961 prevented the sale of thalidomide because the drug was believed to cause deformed babies, and in 1963 cracked down on the sponsors of Krebiozen, whose claim that their medicine could cure cancer was proved groundless after extensive tests...
Last winter, Commissioner George P. Larrick, an up-through-the-ranks man, decided that he had had enough and asked to be retired (a year before he needed to). Soon, so did two other top officials; six key spots are now vacant...
...Commissioner George Larrick retorted that most of the drugs about which Dr. Nestor complained are now off the market. If they are not, last year's Drug Amendments Act, which goes into full effect in May, gives the FDA power to order withdrawals promptly without waiting for final proof of a drug's suspected dangers...
...houses of Congress heard the wail of public anguish and feared that it would turn into a roar of indignation. They quickly got together and hammered out the reasonable compromise that Kennedy signed. Pleased spectators at the signing were the Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner George P. Larrick and Dr. Frances O. Kelsey. who kept thalidomide off the U.S. market...
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...