FDA to enter drug business under new "Revitalization Act"

The agency that is supposed to be in charge of drug safety is about to become a drug company.

This Revitalization Act, it turns out, seeks to create a new government-run pharmaceutical company headed by officials from the FDA. It would officially and unambigiously put the U.S. government in the drug business, where it could license pharmaceuticals and collect royalties on their sale. For obvious reasons, this is a particularly dangerous situation for consumers. Government should be regulating drug companies, not joining them as partners in profit.

A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.

S1082 is a Trojan Horse bill that pretends to address safety issues. Unbelievably, the bill turns the FDA into a drug development company that will expose Americans to new and dangerous biological drugs that have little testing to prove safety or effectiveness. And to top it off, the bill gives broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to frivolously attack dietary supplements and forward the FDA management’s anti-American globalization agenda.

If S1082 becomes law and the FDA is allowed to enter relationships with foreign countries without any Congressional mandate or oversight we can kiss health freedom goodbye – as well as our dietary supplements.

There are instructions at the following url that show you how to contact your senators and tell them youa re opposed to bill S1082. There is also a link to an online petition you can sign.

Source: FDA, Inc.? Food and Drug Administration to enter drug business under new "Revitalization Act"






[edit on 25-4-2007 by annestacey]

Please say this is a very-very late April fools days joke?
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Goes and has a massive melt down.

Originally posted by Leyla
Please say this is a very-very late April fools days joke?
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I'm sorry it's not, but there's a lot of people lobbying against this and it's not too late to get involved. Just follow the links! Thanks so much for caring Leyla!

This should come to as no surprise the management where into Back handers since Cheney was ther.

IOM is putting pressure on them to admit side effects at least

www.reuters.com...

Appears not enough info,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new report on Tuesday describing potential risks of several medicines after criticism that it was lax in policing drugs once they were on the market.

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are there any updates on this "Revitalization act".
this, if approved, would be scary.
as simple as that.

What a nice name for such a sinister thing. This country makes me sick sometimes.

The FDA already sets the RDA too low. What are they going to do now. Only allow supplements that just have 100% RDA?

You ever get the feeling we aren't liked too much by beings in higher positions of power? Are we being killed off? That would be too nice I suppose, they will just drug us and leave us dependent on garbage medications that keep us alive in a less than conscious state. All the while they profit off of us. Man, sound sort of like what the oil companies do. Create a dependency and profit off of it.

Troy