Contaminated chemo drugs, the FDA, and chemical warfare against the public
By Jon Rappoport
Chemo drugs are highly poisonous to begin with. But suppose, on top of that, they're contaminated and tainted?
Welcome to the FDA: the handmaiden to Big Pharma; the
promoter of destructive medicines; the opponent of natural health; the
agency that should have been disbanded and fumigated decades ago.
Corruption Central.
In today's episode, the Agency has issued a slap on the wrist
to Fresenius, a major provider of health care in Europe, with two dozen
drug-manufacturing facilities around the world.
Bloomberg reports: "U.S. regulators warned Fresenius SE after
the company's Indian plant that makes cancer-drug ingredients for the
U.S. market aborted hundreds of drug-quality tests because they seemed
like they were going to fail due to impurities."
"When workers at the plant found potential tainted products,
they halted the tests and said human or machine errors were to blame
instead, according to a Food and Drug Administration warning letter
dated Dec. 4 that cited 248 aborted checks at the West Bengal facility."
The FDA's warning basically instructed Fresenius to do
better. Re-examine all their manufacturing and testing practices. Hire
an outside consultant.
That's comforting, isn't it? With contaminated chemo drugs
floating around the world, the FDA says nothing about ferreting out
these medicines---and here is the capper from the Bloomberg article:
"The agency also warned that if the company doesn't correct
the issues raised in the letter, FDA workers could refuse products made
at the facility admission into the U.S."
My, my. Fresenius can continue to sell its fraudulently
tested, tainted drugs. Not a problem. Business is business. Promise
you'll mend your ways, boys, and stick to your word. Meanwhile, we, at
the FDA, will get back to seeing what we can do to limit sales of those
REALLY dangerous products called nutritional supplements.
Oh, and by the way, this is not the first warning letter the
FDA has issued to Fresenius. As fiercepharma reports: "In a previous
warning letter...FDA cited similar...deviations." And now, the FDA
writes to the company, 'You proposed specific remediation for these
deviations in your [previous] response,' the letter reads. 'These
repeated failures demonstrate that your facility's oversight and control
over the manufacture of drugs is inadequate'."
But the FDA isn't stopping Fresenius from exporting its chemo
drugs into the US. No one is prosecuting company employees and sending
them to prison for fraud and reckless endangerment.
Here are excerpts from my piece about the FDA's overall mafia
operation, to give you the flavor of what goes on at that rogue agency:
In a stunning interview with Truthout's Martha
Rosenberg, former FDA drug reviewer, Ronald Kavanagh, exposes the FDA as
a relentless criminal mob protecting its client, Big Pharma, with a
host of mob strategies.
Kavanagh: "...widespread racketeering, including witness tampering and witness retaliation."
"I was threatened with prison."
"One [FDA] manager threatened my children...I was afraid that
I could be killed for talking to Congress and criminal investigators."
Kavanagh reviewed new drug applications made to the FDA by
pharmaceutical companies. He was one of the holdouts at the Agency who
insisted that the drugs had to be safe and effective before being
released to the public.
But honest appraisal wasn't part of the FDA culture, and
Kavanagh swam against the tide, until he realized his life and the life
of his children was on the line.
What was his secret task at the FDA? "Drug reviewers were
clearly told not to question drug companies and that our job was to
approve drugs." In other words, rubber stamp them. Say the drugs were
safe and effective when they were not.
Kavanagh's revelations are astonishing. He recalls a meeting
where a drug-company representative flat-out stated that his company had
paid the FDA for a new-drug approval. Paid for it. As in bribe.
He remarks that the drug pyridostigmine, given to US troops
to prevent the later effects of nerve gas, "actually increased the
lethality" of certain nerve agents.
Kavanagh recalls being given records of safety data on a
drug---and then his bosses told him which sections not to read.
Obviously, they knew the drug was dangerous and they knew exactly where,
in the reports, that fact would be revealed.
The situation at the FDA isn't correctable with a few
firings. This is an ongoing criminal enterprise, and any government
official, serving in any capacity, who has become aware of it and has
not taken action, is an accessory to mass poisoning of the population.
Seventeen years ago, the cat was let out of the bag. Dr.
Barbara Starfield, writing in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, on July 26, 2000, in a review titled, "Is US health really the best in the world," exposed the fact that FDA-approved medical drugs kill 106,000 Americans per year. That's a MILLION deaths per decade.
Dr. Starfield was a revered public health expert at the Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health. In interviewing her, I discovered she
had never been approached by the FDA or any federal agency to help
remedy this tragedy. Nor had the federal government taken any steps on
its own to stop the dying.
The government has still done nothing.
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