Melamine, a chemical used as a flame retardant is used to make cooking utensils and industrial coatings, is rich in nitrogen; it makes an attractive low-cost additive to milk and other foods; as nitrogen registers as protein on many routine tests . This is why it is so popular as at created the...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, FDA, Business Intelligence, China, tainted milk, Melamine, Food products, Congress Pharma, phamaceutical plant inspections, FDA funding
This actually a pretty good start and I have had my own campaign of sorts going on with getting the FDA up to speed, and they are definitely having to play catch up, as are some other government agencies. In prior posts I had written that some clinical studies were still being written in long hand...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Education, Pharma, FDA, Personal Health Records, GSK, Consumer Healthcare, Drug Interactions
Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to see labels on every product stating the city, origin...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, FDA, China, Outsourcing, Food products, Congress Pharma
This is very scary! How many more “economic decisions” will be made with such serious consequences? I was a little disappointed too this week to find even Hershey has found a way to make economic decisions on not putting real cocoa butter in candy bars, but at least it’s a natural substitution...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Counterfeit, FDA, Food, tainted milk, poison formula
I spent a little time looking around today and there are many "red stars" on this page, which indicate a safety alert from the FDA. Safety alerts come in all shapes and sizes and a red start does not mean to stop taking medications by any means, just an awareness to help both the clinicians...
As the old saying goes, things roll downhill and Siemens was the straw that broke the camel's back here. Recently Siemens has been in the news with their own issues with restructuring and lay offs. There are other creditors including Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii, Ewa Beach, $3.9 million;...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, FDA, Hospitals, Nursing, bankruptcy, Economics, Desperate Hosptials, Venture Capitalists, Transparancy, Layoffs, Debt consolidation, Overseas Investments, Vendors
This is amazing that the battle has gone on over 25 years to restrict these devices from use in the US. The judge said they are"custom-made medical devices exempt from FDA regulation". This marks the first loss in the court room for the FDA on a suit they brought to task. ...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Medical Devices, FDA, Endotec, Joint Replacment, Court, Ankle