Fda Quotes

“To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day from about 100 countries. The FDA was able to inspect about 1% of these shipments, down from 8% in 1992. In contrast, the USDA is able to inspect 16% of the foods under its purview. By one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States.”
― Marion Nestle, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine

“Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.”
― Marion Nestle, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine

“doctors & druggists wash each other's hands”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

“Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them.”
― Steven Magee

“Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.”
― Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

“The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

“What the FDA fails to include is whether it’s okay to inject multiple vaccines simultaneously.”
― James Morcan, Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed?

“In 2004, the FDA urged drug companies to adopt a 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy with respect to their clinical-trial data showing that antidepressants are not better than placebos for depressed children. If the data were made public, they cautioned, it might lead doctors to not prescribe antidepressants. The FDA believed that the jury was still out on antidepressants for children. Even if the clinical trials show negative results, an FDA spokesperson was reported to have said to a Washington Post reporter, it doesn't mean that the drugs are ineffective. The assumption seems to have been that doctors should prescribe medications that have not been shown to work, until it has been proven that they don't work.”
― Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

“When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.”
― Steven Magee

“Convenient ignorance is a common problem in the modern workplace.”
― Steven Magee

“The FDA does not exist to protect you. They do no testing on any products. The FDA is a system that protects a person or person(s) from selling a product or products that could cause someone very important to lose money to others who may use that money and power to due them harm.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“I speak the truth in a society of lies.”
― Steven Magee

“I think you know how it works, Senator. The big chemical companies fill the coffers of one of your colleagues who is a lawmaker from an agricultural state such as, well, let’s take Iowa, for example, and the lawmaker recommends the president to install industry executives in high positions, such as the head of the FDA or the EPA, and, this way, the industry can approve its own products without safety testing.”
― kenneth eade, An Involuntary Spy

“I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“When I was instructed to use medical oxygen to do my job at the W. M. Keck Observatory from 2001 to 2006, I was never told about the legal health information that is now posted on oxygen cylinders. My memories of the green medical oxygen cylinders that we would use daily is that they had no information on them and we were never given a recognised legal oxygen administration training course for routine daily use or a medical prescription from a doctor. We were shown the three oxygen cylinders at the facility and told to use them whenever we developed headaches, which was multiple times daily. It was common to find all three oxygen cylinders in use by other very high altitude workers and to have to line up to get a turn on the magical medical gas.”
― Steven Magee

“Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”
― Steven Magee

“The most dishonest group of people that I have met in life are working in law enforcement.”
― Steven Magee

“It is generally found in health, safety, fraud, and harassment scandals that many people were aware of the abuses but stayed silent and did nothing.”
― Steven Magee

“There is a lot of irresponsibility in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Are you a scallywag?”
― Steven Magee

“You can rely on the governments incompetence.”
― Steven Magee

“My dislike of the government was learned through experience.”
― Steven Magee

“A device can be considered FDA-cleared if the manufacturer and the FDA agree that it is very similar to another device already on the market and is deemed safe to use. Becoming FDA-approved is a more rigorous process, used for devices for which there aren’t other, similar approved models on the market. What makes it even more confusing is that some devices may be FDA-cleared for one indication but used and marketed by physicians for a completely different indication. For example, some devices may be FDA-cleared for pain reduction, yet plastic surgeons use them to reduce fat.”
― Anthony Youn, The Age Fix: A Leading Plastic Surgeon Reveals How to Really Look 10 Years Younger

“Smart people avoid products from a deregulated country.”
― Steven Magee

“I do not waste my time interacting with corrupt government agencies.”
― Steven Magee