FDA accused of delaying Chiron (flu vacc) documents till after election

[alittlelark]

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posted Wednesday, Oct 27, 2004

FDA accused of delaying Chiron documents till after election

By Paul Jacobs

Mercury News


A top Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused the Food and Drug Administration of deliberately withholding documents that he said described severe problems at Chiron's flu vaccine factory until after next week's presidential election.


In a letter Tuesday to the FDA, Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, the senior Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform, said a confidential source inside the FDA told him that the office of acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford had received documents describing the FDA's findings at the Liverpool plant and addressing ``whether the flu vaccine crisis could be prevented.''


The agency has so far refused requests from Congress and the media for copies of FDA inspection reports and other documents describing problems at the Chiron plant, including the results of an inspection in June 2003, about the time Chiron acquired the facility.......


what are they so concerned over....hmmmm, can't guess.

edited because direct link to page will not come up? I assume it's a registration issue? Anyone w/ a better link?

[JuniorPlankton]

1. Wouldn't the repukes want to get the shots

into the country before the election?

[Rose Siding]

2. A blessing on the Waxman house

You NEVER have to question if he's fulfilling his constitution duties.

[truthpusher]

3. see this thread started yesterday on the same item.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=935416&mesg_id=935416

also, here is a related item: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=935928&mesg_id=935928

[alittlelark]

6. Thanks, I just saw in in my paper

and didn't look past the 1st DU LBN page.

[truthpusher]

7. no problem - I thought this was a pretty big deal...

...I talked to a lot of people over last weekend and found that this topic is very personal to them.

[Just Me]

4. Just another instance of how the neoCONS reject accountability and,...

,...transparency of government while they are "ruling" the country 'cause they are 21st C neofascists.

[oneighty]

5. The FDA

must be divorced from their incestuous marriage to the drug corporations or we will all be killed--by bad medicine.

IMHO

180

[RebelYell]

8. It's simple, really

Refuse to take any drugs not off patent, which is usually 10 years. The older drugs are safe. Demand generic.

Edit - Although this approach doesn't address the flu shot issue.