FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals

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FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals

Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:32:36 +0100 (BST)

 

 

 

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ISIS Press Release 01/09/06

 

FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals

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Experimental tests are conducted in developing countries on

sick and vulnerable children under the guise of free and

ethical treatments sanctioned by the FDA and complicit

medical institutions. Sam Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

 

Unapproved GM rice serum tested on sick infants

 

Two children suffered serious allergic reactions after being

used as guinea pigs by the California-based company Ventria

Bioscience in Lima, Peru [1]. The children were part of a

clinical trial of a genetically modified (GM) rice serum

containing two synthetic human proteins lactoferrin and

lysozyme (normally found in human milk and other bodily

fluids), not yet approved for testing in the US or anywhere

else in the world.

 

 

 

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