2006: BAYER CAUGHT DECEIVING FDA

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Posted By: hobie <Send E-Mail>Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 2:17 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi, Folks - According to this 2006 News With Views article by Byron J. Richards, CCN, the Bayer company had deceived the FDA by withholding unfavorable results of a study on their drug, Trasylol, thus leaving a door open for "greater risk of death and kidney failure" among coronary bypass patients, the majority of whom would not even know they were being given the drug. That article's here: http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron10.htm ...and here's an excerpt:

A Brief History of Bayer During WWII the chief executive of Bayer, Fritz ter Meer, ran the Auschwitz concentration camps. He oversaw the use of slave labor to churn out war resources for the Nazis and was the ranking administrative official that oversaw the slaughter of millions of Jews. Following the war he and other executives were given “white collar crime” punishment, and were soon freed from jail by Rockefeller-backed interests that had actually made the war possible by supplying the Nazis with a special fuel additive needed to fly their planes. Within a decade of completion of WWII Fritz ter Meer was back at the helm of Bayer. I fully explain this sordid history in my book, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. While many examples of Big Pharma disregard for life in the name of profit exist, two are worth mentioning. In 1982 Bayer sold an HIV-tainted blood product to hemophiliacs in the United States. When the FDA finally made them quit doing so, Bayer continued to sell the HIV-tainted blood product around the world, even producing more of it. All the while the FDA helped hide the problem from Congress and the American public. This scandal was detailed in a 2003 New York Times article. Bayer paid out over 600 million dollars in damages, while admitting no wrongdoing. In another example, Bayer pushed to increase the dose of its cholesterol lowering drug, Baycol, so it could more effectively compete with other statin drugs. It did this even though it knew the higher dose was harmful to human health, information it withheld from the FDA. As Americans began dying from higher doses of Baycol, Bayer agreed to voluntarily pull the drug off the market. Bayer has paid out over 1 billion dollars in damages for Baycol-related lawsuits. Who Is Responsible? Bayer would like us to believe that the Trasylol cover-up is a mistake. Bayer has a history of disregard for human health in the name of profit. I believe it warrants a full Congressional inquiry. What did Bayer know exactly and when? Why did Bayer deceive the advisory panel and the FDA? Why has the FDA moved so slowly while hundreds of thousands of Americans were placed at risk? In the face of a crisis, why is the FDA playing a stalling game? Does the FDA have the right to let Americans die while it ponders, in a lackadaisical and inefficient manner, the safety of a dangerous drug? Is this how von Eschenbach plans to lead the FDA? Is the FDA hoping that Bayer will pull Trasylol like Merck pulled Vioxx? Why doesn’t the FDA have the guts to take a hot-selling drug off the market? --hobie