Small Government and Diseased Meat (Congress, drugs, statistics, regular)

[goldengrain]

Underfunded FDA by Congress results in tainted antibiotic resistant meat sold in US:

Bacteria 1, F.D.A. 0 - NYTimes.com

[floridasandy]

without the FDA everyone will die, just like they did before the FDA, because vendors like nothing better than killing all their customers.

oh wait......

here is the FDA for those who are not familiar:


Office of the Commissioner
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Office of the Center Director
Office of Communication, Education, and Radiation Programs
Office of Compliance
Office of Device Evaluation
Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety
Office of Management Operations
Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories
Office of Surveillance and Biometrics

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Office of the Center Director Advisory Committee Staff
Controlled Substance Staff Uncontrolled regulations


Office of Compliance Division of Compliance Risk Management and Surveillance
Division of Manufacturing and Product Quality
Division of New Drugs and Labeling Compliance
Division of Scientific Investigations

Office of Medical Policy Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications8

Office of New Drugs
Office of Nonprescription Products
Office of Oncology Drug Products Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC) Program

Office of Pharmaceutical Science Office of Biotechnology Products
Office of Generic Drugs
Office of New Drugs Quality Assessment
Office of Testing and Research Division of Applied Pharmacology Research
Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Division of Product Quality Research Informatics and Computational Safety Analysis Staff (ICSAS)



Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology (formerly Office of Drug Safety)
Office of Translational Sciences Office of Biostatistics
Office of Clinical Pharmacology Pharmacometrics Staff


Division of Drug Information FDA Pharmacy Student Experiential Program

Botanical Review Team
Maternal Health Team

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Center for Tobacco Products
Center for Veterinary Medicine
National Center for Toxicological Research
Office of Regulatory Affairs

out of control much?

[Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus]

Originally Posted by floridasandy

out of control much?

all you did was name a bunch of departments. that doesn't support your premise that they're "out of control."

[sundrop]

Some government control is good....however with what they are allowing monsanto to get away with is concerning to say the very least.

[alphamale]

Yea.

A $4 BILLION DOLLAR budget isn't enough.

[subsound]

Originally Posted by floridasandy

without the FDA everyone will die, just like they did before the FDA, because vendors like nothing better than killing all their customers.

oh wait......

here is the FDA for those who are not familiar:


out of control much?

Listing the number of the departments in an agency irregardless of headcount, performance, spending, comparisons to other departments with less/more, and redundancy makes no sense. All it does is show the world you have no idea what you are talking about, but find any god awful reason no matter how stupid or insane in order to justify your belief.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by goldengrain

Underfunded FDA by Congress results in tainted antibiotic resistant meat sold in US:

Bacteria 1, F.D.A. 0 - NYTimes.com

Complaining about lack of government intervention because of funding ?
If you read the article the government is the one that caused all this.

And now they've changed their tune about putting antibiotics/pesticides/arsenic in animal feed. Only Congress put their request for hearing "on hold".

We did this to ourselves so don't complain.
It was your government that thought it was a good idea to be proactive and let farmers plug their animals full of chemicals to prevent problems so they could create those CAFOs.

You get no sympathy from me. This is what your "big government" did to take care of you.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by floridasandy

without the FDA everyone will die, just like they did before the FDA, because vendors like nothing better than killing all their customers.

Oh, wait. Let's return to the days before the FDA when meat processor's sold putrid meat from long dead cows, there was more "maple syrup" sold than New England produced, rotten vegetables were the norm (the consumer just cut off the waste), people died regularly from food poisoning and nobody gave much of a damn because the motto was "let the customer beware."

You know...the FDA wasn't invented in a vacuum. It was created to address some very, very serious issues in our food supply, issues which were killing people every day because profit took priority over health and public safety.

Go re-read "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair and see if you REALLY want to do without an FDA again.

[Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus]

Originally Posted by alphamale

Yea.

A $4 BILLION DOLLAR budget isn't enough.

So what number is the right size?

Food and Drug Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The FDA regulates more than $1 trillion worth of consumer goods, about 25% of consumer expenditures in the United States. This includes $466 billion in food sales, $275 billion in drugs, $60 billion in cosmetics and $18 billion in vitamin supplements. Much of the expenditures is for goods imported into the United States; the FDA is responsible for monitoring a third of all imports.

[HappyTexan]

Actually the USDA is responsible for meat but it was the FDA that allowed the animals to be fed all those chemicals. Now it's coming back to haunt them in the form of killer hamburger meat.