The FDA prosecution of the tomato proved once again that criminal indictments are often tunnel visioned and have a malicious effect on the indicted.
How many criminal cases in this country focus on one suspect to the exclusion of all others?  Well, that was the case with the tomato.  The investigators, eager to nab a suspect… in this […]

Talk about a week of ups and downs.  We’ve had another one.  So, what happened this week?
The FDA has warned us about eating certain types of tomatoes.  And, we took heed.  The tomato farmers have plowed under fields of tomatoes, acre after acre.  Now the FDA isn’t sure that the salmonella poisoning is a result […]

Well, I have laid off the “F” agencies for a while, even commending FEMA for the work they are doing in the flooded central part of our country.  But, just when one starts to think there is hope for a government agency, the FDA shows that it has no direction and no focus.  Of course, […]

It seems that the FAA is acting quickly on this one.  In a report that was delivered to the FDA today, a medical safety group warned that Chantix, the anti-smoking drug contributed to automobile accidents and posed other risks.  The FAA immediately acted to ban its use from those who pilot our commercial aircraft and […]

Okay… so today there was testimony before Congress again about the FDA and heparin deaths.  I suppose the yen stops in China, because Baxter and the FDA are willing to pass the buck.
Relatives of victims killed by contaminated heparin testify on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The CEO of Baxter Inc., the company that manufactures the […]