Tainted Drugs

[Cornfed01]

FMD is highly contagious. It can spread over great distances through direct contact between infected and susceptible animals, and through indirect contact with contaminated animal products (meat, raw milk, hides), feed, bedding, and inanimate objects (fomites). Large amounts of virus will be present in tissues, excretions, and secretions (including milk, blood, semen, urine and faeces) shortly before the onset of clinical signs in cattle and pigs, and one or two days before the appearance of clinical signs in sheep. Mechanical transfer of infected meat or bones by dogs, foxes or birds is possible. In Canada's 1952 outbreak, a second nidus of infection in April was attributed to contaminated meat bones that were held in a freezer but later carried off by dogs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080605152948/http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/fmdfie/plan/plan-1e.shtml

 

[Cornfed01]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7107411/Pharmaceutical-giant-Pfizer-didnt-reveal-research-showing-arthritis-drug-treat-Alzheimers.html

Pfizer 'deliberately buried' data showing its arthritis drug might also prevent Alzheimer's 'because it wouldn't have made the pharma giant any money'

 

[pdfangus]

What regulations were eliminated?

Shouldn't the exporting country fund the US inspectors?

They should, but they don't. There is no accountability to follow the regulations.

https://www.iatp.org/news/usda-relies-on-foreign-inspections-meat-plants-abroad-fail-sanitation-checks

Sure, more regulations would be a good plan. Like playing a game of football where the refs are only watching your team, and you vote to increase the number of rules you have to follow.

If another country wants to access our markets, it should come at a price and denied to those that are hostile.

And why does meat produced and sold within a state's boundary need to be inspected by anyone other than a state inspector?

Because the large meat packers don't want small scale processing plants eating away at their revenue.

and quiet consolidation of the dairy industry over the last thirty years at the marketing and processing level has lead to the current debacle in the dairy production industry. And the big players keep advocating to throw up regulatory "public Safety" barriers to prevent smaller startups...

 

[hurleyjd]

What regulations were eliminated?

Shouldn't the exporting country fund the US inspectors?

They should, but they don't. There is no accountability to follow the regulations.

https://www.iatp.org/news/usda-relies-on-foreign-inspections-meat-plants-abroad-fail-sanitation-checks

Sure, more regulations would be a good plan. Like playing a game of football where the refs are only watching your team, and you vote to increase the number of rules you have to follow.

If another country wants to access our markets, it should come at a price and denied to those that are hostile.

And why does meat produced and sold within a state's boundary need to be inspected by anyone other than a state inspector?

Because the large meat packers don't want small scale processing plants eating away at their revenue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/chicken-farmers-thought-trump-was-going-to-help-them-but-his-administration-did-the-opposite/ar-AACr20t?li=BBnbfcN

Looks like all the chicken farmers get is a load of litter to sell. But the farmer has to pay someone to remove the litter.

 

[hurleyjd]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7107411/Pharmaceutical-giant-Pfizer-didnt-reveal-research-showing-arthritis-drug-treat-Alzheimers.html

Pfizer 'deliberately buried' data showing its arthritis drug might also prevent Alzheimer's 'because it wouldn't have made the pharma giant any money'

Reason Pfizer did not seek approval was as they said it would take 80 million to do studies to prove it was good to treat Alzheimer.

 

[Cornfed01]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7107411/Pharmaceutical-giant-Pfizer-didnt-reveal-research-showing-arthritis-drug-treat-Alzheimers.html

Pfizer 'deliberately buried' data showing its arthritis drug might also prevent Alzheimer's 'because it wouldn't have made the pharma giant any money'

Reason Pfizer did not seek approval was as they said it would take 80 million to do studies to prove it was good to treat Alzheimer.

The FDA's structure is a frequent obstruction, I agree. It's been weaponized numerous times, but generally to the benefit of big pharma which Pfizer is the poster child.

Never the less, my take away is did the FDA structure prevent Pfizer from releasing those statistical significant associations to the medical/pharmaceutical community if they were not interested in pursuing the studies to get the medication labeled for use?

 

[ga.prime]

Reason Pfizer did not seek approval was as they said it would take 80 million to do studies to prove it was good to treat Alzheimer.

Partly right. The drug, Enbrel, has been around awhile and has no patent protection and so there is generic Enbrel which would benefit freely from any studies or research done by Pfizer in regards to Alzheimer's treatment. Also, no guarantee it would pan out as an Alzheimer's treatment.

 

[Cornfed01]

Reason Pfizer did not seek approval was as they said it would take 80 million to do studies to prove it was good to treat Alzheimer.

Partly right. The drug, Enbrel, has been around awhile and has no patent protection and so there is generic Enbrel which would benefit freely from any studies or research done by Pfizer in regards to Alzheimer's treatment. Also, no guarantee it would pan out as an Alzheimer's treatment.

Not worth pursuing- done. Capital investment decision made.

So what prevents them ftom release of the statistical analysis to the medical community?

Are medications ever prescribed "off label"?

 

[sstterry]

Are medications ever prescribed "off label"?

All the time. For instance, methotrexate is a cancer drug that has been used "off label" for over 50 years to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

 

[pdfangus]

Are medications ever prescribed "off label"?

All the time. For instance, methotrexate is a cancer drug that has been used "off label" for over 50 years to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Yes I have been on it for several years.
Was on her Embrel like for a year or so but now just the mthrotrexate for three or four years

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

Methotrexate didn't seem to help me , I was on it for 7 months. Trying humira now, well see.

 

[pdfangus]

I think the injectable stuff knocked it back and the methrotrexate is just helping me hold it at bay....

I also take a product called instaflex plus and it helped me in seven days and I can tell if I run out, so I do not run out.

RA doc looked at it and said if it helps, then take it....I have a standing order for a monthly shipment. one pill a day.

 

[Cornfed01]

Are medications ever prescribed "off label"?

All the time. For instance, methotrexate is a cancer drug that has been used "off label" for over 50 years to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Yep, and "Right to try" only increased the potential.

Their excuse to not release the data isn't passing the smell test.

More is coming.

 

[HSTexas]

A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of an $225 million deal with the U.S. Justice Department resolving claims that the drugmaker bribed doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-insys-opioids/unit-of-drugmaker-insys-to-plead-guilty-to-u-s-opioid-bribe-scheme-idUSKCN1T8111

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of an $225 million deal with the U.S. Justice Department resolving claims that the drugmaker bribed doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-insys-opioids/unit-of-drugmaker-insys-to-plead-guilty-to-u-s-opioid-bribe-scheme-idUSKCN1T8111

Hiya Tex, where ya been?

 

[Cornfed01]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-hardening-arteriesand-potential-treatmentidentified.html