Shocking Story Reveals How the FDA Is Recklessly Abandoning Drug Safety

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GFP Note: This is a follow-up to a story we posted on July 27: FDA Employee Surveillance May Indicate the Agency Has Lots to Hide

 

2012 The Big Picture

By Dr. Mercola

August 13, 2012

Prescription Drugs

In the wake of shocking reports on how the FDA, terrified of being outed for its questionable practices, spied on its own employees in the hopes of rooting them out before they could become whistleblowers, a new story has emerged on how deep the deceit goes. From marginalizing safety reports to not reading them at all―and then going ahead and approving the drugs in question―the FDA once more stands accused of being little more than a rubber-stamping agency for Big Pharma.

Explosive revelations of an intensive spy operation by the FDA on its own scientists emerged last month. Using sophisticated spy software, the agency tracked and logged every move made by the targeted individuals. The program even intercepted personal emails and copied documents on their personal thumb drives.

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