The FDA would be a complete farce and a laughable joke if it didn't have life or death control over U.S. citizen's health and businesses. While they will storm, with full body armor and automatic weapons, a medical doctor's office who treats his patients - successfully - with large doses of vitamins, they actually promote Big Pharma's products that kill millions each year.
And with Odumbo, you'll see their power expanded even more over your health and food.
FDA should stand for Fu@#ing Dumb Asses!
We are suffocating under smothering regulations but receiving none of the promised benefits.
It sounds like someone screwed up big time dealing with the peanuts, but since you moved on from the peanuts story to a rant about the “jackbooted thug enforcement arm of the Pharmaceutical industry”...
I always laugh at these descriptions of the FDA. They’re “jackbooted thugs” because SOMETIMES they tell some left-wing kooks peddling quackery and snake oil that their snake oil kills people.
Then the “evil” drug companies spend billions of dollars on research and development to find the real medicines. They spend billions more to purify out the useless and potentially harmless biproducts. Now, the “supplement” has become a “pharmaceutical.” So they have to spend billions more to test the efficiacy, and safety of their product. Now, those same jack- booted thugs are corrupt shills when they let a tested, quality-controlled, proven-effective product move to market.
Thirty years ago there was the APHIS and USDA was responsible for the food inspection and control. Somewhere between Jimmy Carter’s reign and then during the Clinton administration, the power of the smaller inspection services was reduced and the FDA given the overall responsibility to ensure our food sources were safe. I remember during the Clinton administration the Food Inspection services were put under the control of a lawyer instead of a health professional familiar with food safety.
I got a recall letter today from a wholesale food outlet from whom I bught five pounds of tainted peanuts.
If FDA had taken private property without just compensation we would be (rightly) complaining. Certainly there is no way the Agency can inspect every one of the hundreds of thousands facilities within their jurisdiction. What happened is regrettable but understandable given the sweeping scope of the FDA’s mission and their limited resources. Should they have inspected the PCA facility? Probably. However, hindsight is 20/20.