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...relieve anxiety and morning sickness in pregnant women resulted in the birth of thousands of children with cruel deformities, from flipper-like limbs to malformations of the heart. The drug, it is now known, produces a similar effect in the offspring of monkeys and rabbits. But during the premarket tests of thalidomide in the 1950s, it was mainly studied in laboratory rats because they are easy to handle and relatively cheap. No evidence of damage to offspring of rats given the drug was found...
...disorders, birth defects or even cancer. But now there is hope that many others may be spared such agonies in the future. Calling it "one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation to come out of Congress," President Ford last week signed into law a bill that requires premarket testing of new chemicals...
POST-MARKET MONITORING. U.S. drug policy currently emphasizes premarket testing of drugs. It would do better to pay more attention to what happens after a drug is cleared, say Wardell and Lasagna. "When widespread drug toxicity has occurred, it has only been after a drug has been marketed, and never in the early phases of development...