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2013-11-08 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year.

I bet not forcing the cancellation of millions of health insurance policies would have had the same salutary effects. Or better.

Odd, isn't it, this idea that if the government did LESS, things might be better.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-11-08 06:39|| 2013-11-08 06:39|| Front Page Top

#2 In other words the FDA is declaring Transfat a pollutant...

Much like the EPA declaring CO2 (which is required for all live since plants need it) a pollutant...

I would call the FDA and EPA pollutants - but that would be an insult to pollutants. Toxins might be more appropriate.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-11-08 07:37|| 2013-11-08 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Will natural trans fats also be banned - dairy asnd meat fats for instance?

Posted by Glenmore 2013-11-08 09:06|| 2013-11-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 The FDA really needs to concentrate on certifying that prescription meds work -- our prescription costs would fall significantly if they just did the job they're supposed to do.
Uh, no, it doesn't always work out that way. Colchicine has been used since 1500 BC. FDA recently required it be "certified" that it works. The end result of this was not "safety" for consumers but "profit" for the sole rentier-company which the FDA granted the exclusive right to sell the drug at a HUGE price increase.

Colchicine has been used to treat gout and other inflammatory conditions for thousands of years. How could one company gain a monopoly?

There are about 1,000 medications on the market that predate the existence of the Food and Drug Administration and therefore were never approved. FDA official Deborah Autor spoke to CBS News as head of the office of unapproved drugs. "Well, for me, unapproved drugs present current risks," Autor said. "We don't know what's in them. We don't know if they're going to work properly. We don't know how they're made and that's a real concern."

Hundreds of thousands of people take Colchicine each year. The FDA said over the past 40 years, 169 deaths have been linked to the medication. A company called URL Pharma decided it would take the ancient drug, sold for 10 cents a pill, and test it as part of an FDA program to either approve these drugs or get them off the market.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-11-08 10:44|| 2013-11-08 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Will natural trans fats also be banned - dairy asnd meat fats for instance? Certainly, if PETA has its way.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-11-08 10:52|| 2013-11-08 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 FDA is called the "Food" and "Drug" Administration for a reason. I think banning artificial trans fats in foods is something entirely within the purview of its authority. Natural trans fats are an entirely different "beast", and I anxiously await documentation of the harms the natural forms produce in the population at large. Meanwhile bakeries can face the oh-the-horror of producing pastries & cakes without artificial trans fats.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-11-08 10:57|| 2013-11-08 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 OTOH, I don't believe the EPA has any legitimate authority to control CO2 emissions, and that this was not within the intent of the legislation authorizing the EPA.
The current Congressional dysfunction however means that gay rights legislation is considered of ultimate importance to that gang of fools, while writing a national budget or reining in executive branch over-reach is off the table, and cannot even be discussed in polite / politically correct company.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-11-08 11:00|| 2013-11-08 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 The walls are closing in. I wish these people would just leave us alone.

Posted by newc 2013-11-08 11:36|| 2013-11-08 11:36|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^That, pls, for hell's sake just let us be for a year or 2.

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-08 13:13|| 2013-11-08 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Hundreds of thousands of people take Colchicine each year.

I was one of those, for a little while - a gout flare-up. The doc warned me about this change, and surenuff, my insurance company paid about $4.50 for each tiny little purple pill. I feel so much safer knowing the Feds think it's OK.

Posted by Bobby 2013-11-08 14:05|| 2013-11-08 14:05|| Front Page Top

#11 I find this policy to be in direct conflict with the legalization of marijuana.

Posted by Airandee 2013-11-08 17:15|| 2013-11-08 17:15|| Front Page Top

#12 The same EPA that so over-regulates that they had to give milk a waiver from one of their statutes.

Posted by mossomo 2013-11-08 18:17|| 2013-11-08 18:17|| Front Page Top

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