Re: RC: Re: Re: Re: Re: Animal By-Products in Feed

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Actually if you look at the number of drugs that have been withdrawn in
the
past several years the FDA record of approval looks pretty abysmal.
Considering the side effects of aspirin, it is a minor burp to some that
have
recently been taken off the market.

While the FDA had not approved thalidomide it was basically because the
application was not made for the US market until it was obvious in
Europe that
there were problems with this drug. Given that the FDA works on the same
basic
test philosophy as its European counterparts, we were only spared
because of
the late application. This is a case study of how the drug approval
process is
seriously flawed.

After reforms in the 60's becaues of the thalidomide tragedy this type
of
thing was never going to happen again. Yep right, well wrong again. This
whole
issue is a case of conflicting priorities. The need to get drugs
available for
use by people who truly need them, the priority to insure the durgs
approved
are safe and don't case more problems than they solve and the priority
of the
drug companies to make a return on their investment - which in most
cases is
quite large.

Am I going to take a drug that hasn't been on the market of 15 or 20
years,
not on your life.

Truman

Duncan Fletcher wrote:

> Perhaps you would like to support that statement. There have been a number
> of similar products that have been approved in recent years. So I rather
> suspect aspirin would have no problem getting approval either.
>
> It is interesting to note that some competeing products are no longer used
> (at least for humans) - bute for one.
>
> Duncan Fletcher
> dfletche@gte.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carolyn Burgess"
>
> Along with western medicine comes drug studies, which subject medicine to
> testing so that bad medicines can't go into production.  However, aspirin
> would not be able to pass the FDA testing and be approved today!
>
>

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