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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has cracked down on thousands of online pharmacies for selling potentially unsafe, unapproved or fake medicines, including the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra and antiviral Tamiflu.
The FDA, working with international regulatory and law enforcement agencies from about 100 countries, said on Thursday that it took action against more than 4,100 Internet pharmacies, bringing civil and criminal charges, removing offending websites and seizing drugs worldwide.
You do not understand why drugs are not usually tested on pregnant women? How sad.
You do not understand that many times the benefit to the mother of taking a medication outweighs the risk to the baby? That's even sadder. How does it benefit the baby if the mother dies from an infection that could be cured with an antibiotic - even if the antibiotic was never tested in pregnant women?
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Originally Posted by Submariner
I find it hard to imagine why anyone would 'trust' the FDA.
How many Monsanto, Dow, Pfizer execs are there who now work at FDA?
Want to market a known unsafe drug? Just get your execs into high level positions at the FDA. And the FDA will help you with your competition.
Just try marketing a "known unsafe" drug and see what happens.
... Just try marketing a "known unsafe" drug and see what happens.
The list is rather long, of drugs where they knew the drug was bad, yet FDA allowed marketing for years; to finally stop after huge profits have been made, and people were hurt.
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