Ted Kennedy’s bill to allow FDA to regulate tobacco passed by a wide margin in the US Senate and now moves to the House of Representatives. For the first time the tobacco companies will have to list ingredients in cigarettes. That sounds pretty good to me. However, I have serious concerns regarding FDA taking over an addictive product (see post below). However, as usual, they forgot to ask me. I am attaching the Washington Post’s take on it all under Interesting Articles “Bill Heads to House.”
Update: Under blogroll NY Times on Tobacco Bedfellows you can read the interesting story of how three unlikely partners worked together on behalf of FDA regulating tobacco.
UPDATE: See this interesting analysis for Seattle under Interesting articles on the right, scroll down until Bill on Tobacco spurs debate. Soon I will return to views on clinical trials.
Update: Wouldn’t you know it. WordPress has changed how to add links and I just don’t understand it. When up against a bureaucracy, WordPress is pretty fierce. Look at the blogroll under DC Freedom. WordPress isn’t letting me post links elsewhere.
New FDA Commissioner wants to “enforce the Act.”
June 17, 2009Update 3: The government columnist for Applied Clinical Trials, Jill Wechsler, writes about the increased enforcement of good clinical practice regulations for clinical trials. See the link in interesting articles, Applied Clinical Trials…
In her first discussion of her goals and priorities for FDA with the media, new FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg made it clear that she would place an increased emphasis on enforcement. When I conducted FDA inspections (1993-2005) we used to call this, “enforcing the Act.” We saw our primary job as enforcement of the US Food Drug & Cosmetic Act, which we modestly referred to as the “foremost consumer protection law in the world.” I am attaching a NY Times article (1: New FDA chief says she’ll toughen enforcement standards) that describes Hamburg’s new emphasis on enforcement activities (see Blogroll on the right). The Times also reports that FDA warns against using Zicam, a popular cold remedy that evidently can destroy your sense of smell (see NY Times website).
Update: Matrixx defends Zicam, read their views under Interesting Articles on the right (scroll down).
Update 2: Time seems to think that FDA is getting tougher. See: 2 Is FDA Getting Tougher on the blogroll
Update 3: Take a look at Dr. Hamburg’s speech to FDLI in the latest 2 posts. This post has been confirmed!
Read the NY Times Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17fda.html?_r=1
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