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H.R. 2900, The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007

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Dennis

July 11, 2007, 9:11pm (report abuse)

I do not need the Congress to "protect" me from everything. The FDA is bought and paid for by the drug companies anyway. It is self evident they have ulterior motives. I can make some decisions by myself, thank you.

Anne

July 11, 2007, 11:58pm (report abuse)

The government is already intrusive
enough, we don't need them telling us what we can and cannot buy! FDA and Big Pharma are joined by the hip! Big Pharma has shown proof by allowing medications on the market that have proved to be unsafe that they don't care about
"WE THE PEOPLE"! If this bill goes through we will have to rely on them even more... Do we really want to hand over our lives to an organization that will put profits before people?? I think not!!

Susan

July 12, 2007, 12:21am (report abuse)

HR 2900 is nominally intended to fund the FDA; however, it would also establish the Reagan-Udall Foundation, a non-profit corporation outside the FDA that would be partly responsible for the review of proposed new drugs. The board of directors of this corporation would include, among others, drug company representatives!

Imagine that: making drug company representatives responsible for reviewing the very products they are eager to get on the market...

Redfin

July 12, 2007, 11:29am (report abuse)

Some alternative medicine proponents (at least the ones who see conspiracies everywhere) seem to think this bill is aimed at them. Since it actually is targeted at improving pharmaceutical drug safety, maybe the conspiracy theorists can clarify what's gotten them in an uproar?

It seems that increasingly, whenever some proposal comes up to protect Americans from bad drugs _or_ supplements there are "health freedom" advocates leaping to protest. Either they are grossly misinformed, hate the idea of the FDA taking on any more responsibilities, or both.

Use some sense, folks.

Gayle

July 12, 2007, 6:57pm (report abuse)

I would invite you to do the same, Redfin - use some sense. How many times in the recent past has the FDA approved a medication only to have people DIE from their use of the approved drug? I don't want the government making health decisions for me. I deem it MY responsibility to research carefully anything I choose to ingest. I know my body better than anyone and want to reserve the right to take whatever I deem necessary, after appropriate research. Common sense comes with experience, something the government CANNOT impose on me! Where does freedom of choice play into this? I'm more than weary of government entities telling me what's "good" for me.

James K

July 13, 2007, 12:19pm (report abuse)

The FDA needs to get back to focusing on what they should be focusing on. Making sure dangerous foods and drugs are not being sold. Yet they seem to think that they can also go after companies for marketing reasons such as Redux Beverages and their energy drink named Cocaine. Contains no illegal substances and isn't much different than any of the other thousand or so energy drinks out there yet the FDA says nope you can't sell it cause the name. Why haven't they gone after Coke and Coca-Cola? Because Coke has the money to put in the pockets of the FDA officials. The FDA is a joke, as more people get sick from "approved" products and as more food poison incidents arrise its clear they have no idea what they are doing.

Erinzdad

July 13, 2007, 12:47pm (report abuse)

Not to sound alarmist, but HR.2900 will result in the FDA requiring prescriptions for vitamins and all forms of supplements. This is big pharma's and the AMA's goal and has already been implemented in most of Europe. In Germany today you cannot get quality vitamins. Their vitamins are "watered down" and are quite expensive. Our lawmakers have taken the first step to handing control of vitamins over to the pharmaceutical companies and the AMA. This will not materialize overnight. They wouldn't want to spook the sheeple. It will be done incrementally.

Jack

July 15, 2007, 3:21pm (report abuse)

What bothers me most about pharmaceutical industry representatives in govt is in cases where "safety" standards are not agreed on, ie., in drugs used for psychiatric purposes, where there are no standards whatever, and abuse is routine. We're talking about fooling with people's minds here, and I've heard too many MDs tell me that they don't know what they're doing, but they feel compelled to do *something* anyway.

This is not a situation that we can rely on the industry to use sense.

Fathom7

July 16, 2007, 3:14pm (report abuse)

The bill provides funding for FDA. Not an insignificant amount either. The focus of it seems to be toward the evaluation of data concerning drug products. Where does the money come from? "User fees" which is a euphemism for You and Me since the fees would be rolled up into the cost of OTC and prescription medications. The CBO report understands this and reports a notable increased in costs.

All that said -- I don't see any targeted group (i.e. dietary supplements) in this funding proposal. There's not really that much money to go around out of this bill.

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