SFDA Official executed for accepting bribes
Posted Jul 16th 2007 11:51AM by Allie Beatty
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, Daily News, Opinion, Support
Former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), was executed for taking bribes in return for approving the use of certain medicines. No, you didn't miss anything. The SFDA to which the news story refers is in China. At ease, boys- you're all safe (for now).
Mike Adams of NewsTarget explains in his cartoon that the FDA is a clear and present danger to the health and safety of the American people. The agency is so deeply entangled in protecting drug company profits and corporate interests that it has utterly abandoned its mission of protecting the people. In fact, bribery is routine in the United States drug approval process. A policy exists that allows FDA decision panel experts -- the people who decide which drugs to approve or reject -- to accept up to $50,000 in bribes from drug companies and still serve on such decision panels.
What's really interesting about the press coverage of China's execution is that virtually no one has bothered to call for arresting and prosecuting corrupt FDA officials in the United States. We inherently trust everything we are told by our doctors and our elected officials - we chose them in the first place. It is not until we are awakened to someone else's problem, and realize that it is ours. The U.S. FDA is trustworthy, right? Our people would never stoop to accepting bribes - especially not the president elect for the American Diabetes Association, right?
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1. Allie--
I make the phone calls; I contact news outlets (both local & national); I write my Senators and Congressman; I write regulatory agencies and officials; I sign petitions; heck, I've even written Michael Moore and his "fellow journalists" . . . but I've found that, much as we witness with our current Decider-in-Chief, reality resides with the powerful. The very few responses I receive are from one of my Senators who, 6 months after an issue has been addressed, acknowledges via form letter his thanks for contacting him . . . blah, blah, blah. How much 'failure' can a single individual endure? (That's a rhetorical question; I can only answer for myself that my limit has not yet been reached.)
Posted at 12:55PM on Jul 16th 2007 by Melody