Absolutely! I agree that the FDA is mismanaged and has been for years. It's so incredible. This is the 21st century. There are many websites available on the internet with medical advice on a number of subjects, too numerous to mention. But our FDA? Their web site is sh*t! Utter sh*t.
They have a guy in charge of the FDA who is getting paid for doing nothing.
He is backed up by a bunch of goose-stepping, rubber-stamping, deaf, dumb, and blind morons who could care less that the whole of America depends on this particular institution to offer guidance on safety issues regarding food and drugs.
The website doesn't even offer an e-mail address to send comments, complaints, questions, reports of hazardous products, etc.
THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY!!!! They are technologically archaic. They are out of step with real Americans and current issues.
The FDA needs to get with it. It needs to get responsible. It needs to get pro-active. It needs to do its job, perform its function.
While I was living in Indonesia back in February and March of 2008, there was a lot of talk about melamine in baby formula and other baby food products produced in China but sold and distributed throughout Indonesia (as well as other south east Asian countries). This was covered on the news often and it scared a lot of new mothers and rightfully so. At the time, the Indonesian authorities told their viewers that the specific brand names would not be released to the public and simply cautioned stores to take it off their shelves and new mothers to use caution. Without knowing the culprits, I don't know how this was to be accomplished.
I said to my Indonesian friends that I was shocked and disgusted at the way the Indonesian health authorities mishandled the whole matter, how they could withhold critical information from the public, how the producers would not be held accountable and how the companies' brand names would also remain unknown while consumers continued to be at risk. I told my friends that this sort of thing was unthinkable in the USA. That if this same melamine problem happened in the USA, authorities would release brand names and companies would be denounced.
Well..., after I arrived back in the states the same thing DID happen here. Similar stories were reported this past summer but I was shocked to learn that the formula producer's name was not revealed. The FDA remained silent.
It's hard to believe that we would follow the same pattern of a third world country.
But the sad fact is: we did, and we do. And in more ways than the ones just mentioned.
I am very angry. The United States FDA is useless.
Absolutely! I agree that the FDA is mismanaged and has been for years. It's so incredible. This is the 21st century. There are many websites available on the internet with medical advice on a number of subjects, too numerous to mention. But our FDA? Their web site is sh*t! Utter sh*t.
They have a guy in charge of the FDA who is getting paid for doing nothing.
He is backed up by a bunch of goose-stepping, rubber-stamping, deaf, dumb, and blind morons who could care less that the whole of America depends on this particular institution to offer guidance on safety issues regarding food and drugs.
The website doesn't even offer an e-mail address to send comments, complaints, questions, reports of hazardous products, etc.
THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY!!!! They are technologically archaic. They are out of step with real Americans and current issues.
The FDA needs to get with it. It needs to get responsible. It needs to get pro-active. It needs to do its job, perform its function.
While I was living in Indonesia back in February and March of 2008, there was a lot of talk about melamine in baby formula and other baby food products produced in China but sold and distributed throughout Indonesia (as well as other south east Asian countries). This was covered on the news often and it scared a lot of new mothers and rightfully so. At the time, the Indonesian authorities told their viewers that the specific brand names would not be released to the public and simply cautioned stores to take it off their shelves and new mothers to use caution. Without knowing the culprits, I don't know how this was to be accomplished.
I said to my Indonesian friends that I was shocked and disgusted at the way the Indonesian health authorities mishandled the whole matter, how they could withhold critical information from the public, how the producers would not be held accountable and how the companies' brand names would also remain unknown while consumers continued to be at risk. I told my friends that this sort of thing was unthinkable in the USA. That if this same melamine problem happened in the USA, authorities would release brand names and companies would be denounced.
Well..., after I arrived back in the states the same thing DID happen here. Similar stories were reported this past summer but I was shocked to learn that the formula producer's name was not revealed. The FDA remained silent.
It's hard to believe that we would follow the same pattern of a third world country.
But the sad fact is: we did, and we do. And in more ways than the ones just mentioned.
I am very angry. The United States FDA is useless.