Health Supreme Update: Pharma: Tame Watchdogs Not Protecting Public Health

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> 7 Oct 2004 13:13:31 -0000

 

> Health Supreme Update: Pharma: Tame

> Watchdogs Not Protecting Public Health

> sepp

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> Health Supreme Update: Pharma: Tame Watchdogs Not

> Protecting Public Health

>

> October 07, 2004

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> In a recent article, The Guardian has exposed

> the unhealthy

> relationship between Big Pharma and the UK

> " watchdog " , the MHRA

> or Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory

> Agency, which

> appears to be a pharma-controlled promotional

> agency, rather

> than a provider of checks and balances on the

> work of this

> incredibly profitable industry. The " revolving

> door syndrome "

> which Professor Abraham sees in the UK, closely

> parallels the

> analogous situation in the US, where the FDA has

> long been

> shown to be more close to the interests of the

> pharmaceutical

> and food industries, approving drugs and toxic

> additives such

> as the synthetic sweetener Aspartame, often

> overriding the

> better judgement of scientists. One of...

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http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/10/07/pharma_tame_watchdogs_not_protec\

ting_public_health.htm

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> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/

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> Like in the US, so in the UK. Pharmaceutical control

> of the agencies

> designated as " watchdogs " seems to be a world wide

> phenomenon...

>

> Kind regards

> Sepp

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