In an interview with Matt Lauer the President Barack Obama expressed his disturbance about FDA's failures on how the agency missed the salmonella-linked peanut products that reached to the US consumers and said he will order full review of FDA operations.
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The peanut butter recall has just gotten worse, without Peanut Corporation of America, the manufacturer at the center of the outbreak, doing a thing. The FDA, however, has expanded the recall of the company's products all the way back to 2007.
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It's this year's e. coli scare, and it's not getting any better, but rather, it's getting worse. It now seems to have a name, the peanut butter recall of 2009.
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It appears a voluntary recall of Kellogg's peanut butter crackers is not enough, nor is the recall of 21 lots of peanut butter over possible salmonella contamination. The FDA has now told consumers to avoid all foods containing peanut butter, for now.
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Two months ago the FDA said it was unable to determine a safe level of melamine in baby formula. Yet days after the AP disclosed previously hidden test results showing melamine found in U.S. baby formula, suddenly, they have!
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Chinese products that contain milk will be detained at the U.S. border unless tests show they are not contaminated, reports The New York Times.
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Two very popular aspirin products by Bayer received FDA warnings today. Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage and Women’s Aspirin plus Calcium could harm consumers regulators say. The FDA originally approved the drugs but not for the use of preventing osteoporosis and high cholesterol which the labels on the drugs state.
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Certainly, it's been a while since the last major "made in China means dangerous" fiasco. You will probably recall the issues last year over toys a date rape drug, dog food with melamine (which killed several dogs), toys with lead paint, contaminated toothpaste, and on and on. Well, it appears it's time for our next problem product: baby formula.
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The Access Act is gaining support from both sides of the aisle in congress and the senate. Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus have just signed on. Please write your representatives and senators to request their support of the Access Act.
A petition has been created (link below) that will also be sent to The Hill.
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Members and Friends of CareToLive took to the streets in 10 cities across America on May 30, 2008. Why? To continue to tell the story about how some folks at the FDA were busy serving themselves when they were supposed to be serving the people of this great nation. To continue to tell the story about how 30,000 men, today, are in desperate need of a treatment for their prostate cancer, and how the FDA wrongly denied them some help.
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We arrived at the FDA visitor parking lot at 7:45 AM ready to protest at 8:00. There were already many visitors parked there and the FDA lot was already full of cars. We walked across the street so we were right in front of the 5600 Fischer, the FDA Parklawn building.
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