Dysfunctional FDA Computer System Delays Drug Safety Reporting By Four Years

re: Dysfunctional FDA Computer System Delays Drug Safety Reporting By Four Years

Witch Doctor — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:07:43 GMT

Another reason government should only do what the constitution expressly states it should do. I have heard story after story, and since I work at a national laboratory, I have seen first hand how government agencies shun the cheap and effective solution for the expensive solution. They are not about saving money - they are about building empires. They want to be able to justify and control larger budgets and have more staff and infrastructure. Monitoring drug safety should be put in private hands, with incentives based on how many drug dangers they uncover. Multiple private companies could compete for the contract. The government could own the information, so that if another company wins the contract later, the information is intact. One thing you won't find in private companies is wastefulness and inefficiency - their survival depends on it. Government agencies have the opposite incentive - control ever-larger budgets and have more staff and infrastructure.

Just my opinion.
Duane

re: Dysfunctional FDA Computer System Delays Drug Safety Reporting By Four Years

Russ Bianchi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:33:36 GMT

The BIG LIE folks is that the FDA is NOT policing much of anything in drugs, OTC, food, cosmetics, flavor and fragrances, beverages, that are non alcoholic (that's over with Tobacco and Firearms and a hug money maker in tax revenue for Uncle Sam), or dietary supplements.

Would even a functioning computer system help? NO!

The way the system polices itself, is by one competitor turning another in for false and/or non compliant labeling, or to FTC, for false advertising and representation, or straight up law suits, or consumer fraud filings or law suits.

THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH FDA ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO POLICE a few dozen full sports stadiums of fast food vendors, let alone what 310+ million people eat daily.

Therefore, FDA picks and chooses the most blatant and criminal examples to send weekly warning letters out to, and in the rare case, actually prosecutes or shuts down, as now the USDA is rushing to do in the meat processing and dairy industries, allowing the more compliant plants to be "trusted".

Is it any wonder why so many prescription and OTC drugs are recalled for bad side effects or harm?

Is it any wonder EVIL SCIENCE, like GMO seeds and crops, are one their way to be OK'd?

Is it any wonder America has become the most OBESE, DIABETIC, HYPOGLYCEMIC & CANCER OR HEART DISEASE ridden country per capital in the world, while the food and soda distribution chains are awash in High Fructose Corn Syrup, and other like saccaharides, triggering these diseases (the FDA and USDA are promoting via the Farm Subsidy annual pork barrel bill)?

Can you rely on any government agency to protect what you consume in food or beverage? NO!

Take charge of your own health, because the entire food chain regulatory system is BROKEN, and not likely to even begin to be fixed in your, or my, life times, if ever, by bureaucrats.

re: Archaic FDA Computer System Delays Drug Safety Reporting By Four Years

enzo — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:19:53 GMT

Perfect!

A dysfunctional computer system …for a dysfunctional government agency.

Perhaps the pharmaceutical companies can develop a toxic anti-virus for the sick computer system that was not fed the proper software diet. I say they should keep feeding it bad information. Let it crash and die, like they let so many people crash and die on their multi-billion dollar poisons.