FDA Calls Efforts For Bayer Illegal: -click the link! It's a must read article.
By Dan Morgan and Marc Kaufman; Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, April 30, 2005; Page A01
Robt; Thanks to a little bird for bringing this article to my attention. One of the blessings of ADD/ADHD is that it allows us to form bits and pieces of details into a bigger picture. One of it's curses is that we can't keep up with those individual details very well.The German pharmaceutical giant Bayer suffered a serious setback last year when a federal administrative law judge backed a proposed ban on a drug used to fight poultry infections at factory farms. The judge cited growing scientific evidence suggesting that the practice was reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics vital to human health.
Facing defeat in a three-year legal battle, Bayer sought help in a new arena -- Congress. In a letter written in the office of Rep. Charles W. 'Chip' Pickering Jr. (R-Miss.), and with the assistance of a Bayer lobbyist who was a longtime Pickering friend, 26 House members argued that the poultry medicine was 'absolutely necessary to protecting the health of birds.' It called on Lester M. Crawford, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, to set aside the judge's decision regarding the class of drugs. The Bayer product is known as Baytril.
The Post's article would make the basis for a good novel about how corporate greed ignores public need. That's just my opinion thought.
...all the emphasis by coloring text is mine
