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  • Pharmaceutical Facts Investors Should Know [View article]
    To BioInvestor...the pet food and heparin that caused so many deaths were "branded"... and so was the "fake" Colgate that contained a diethylene glycol as a sweetener. Neither the FDA or the USDA is up to the moral challenge of their charters, so it behooves the intermediate importer to spec. and test, beyond what AAOAC requires, because "smart & greedy" chemists overseas can pull a fast one, when the test is indirect. I would require GC-MassSpec for any intermediate, to prevent doping.

    With regard to the Rx companies' spending on R&D vs Marketing & Lobbying, there are many natural treatments that don't have a systematic standards base...and a lot were sequestered by Big Pharma, because they couldn't isolate and rebrand the "active" intermediate. In other cases, they bought the company - or researcher - and shut them up...which might be "good business", but like hiring the guy who torpedoed the Medicare Rx plan and then retired from the Senate, and is now head of the PMA lobbying group...it's not very ethical.
    May 31 20:37 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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