A number of weeks in the past I supplied the primary 100 individuals who emailed me at [email protected], and gave me their mailing handle, that I’d ship them a free t-shirt. To this point I’ve had over 500 requests – so I ordered extra. We additionally hand delivered over 250 to members of the Home and Senate. I’ve additionally despatched a number of dozen to previous and present members of the FDA – dwelling addresses solely.
Additionally, you will begin seeing the under adverts on quite a lot of social media platforms within the coming months.
FDA management – effectively, what’s left – time to concentrate.
GET THE FACTS: WHY WE CAN NO LONGER TRUST THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION TO KEEP US SAFE FROM CONTAMINATED FOOD
Annually, hundreds of thousands of Individuals are sickened, and hundreds die from foodborne sickness. And but, the management of the Meals and Drug Administration continues to be preoccupied with drug oversight and overlook meals security. Final Fall the credibility of the FDA once more was on the butcher block. This time it was the FDA’s failure to adequately examine an toddler formulation producer which led to doubtless in poor health youngsters, a recall, a plant closure, and cabinets naked of toddler formulation.
Folks, together with infants, have continued to die needlessly as a result of the FDA has been sluggish to stop foodborne sickness.
And, the FDA Commissioner has ignored what all of the consultants – together with an unbiased panel Califf himself commissioned – instructed him is required to repair the issues.
It’s not solely galling, but additionally tragic that the Commissioner’s so-called plan to repair the dysfunctional construction and tradition that permits for messes just like the toddler formulation fiasco, ongoing foodborne sickness outbreaks and the surge in weight problems, diabetes and coronary heart illness brought on by meals.
The adjustments the Commissioner has proposed stand no probability of fixing the systemic issues with the company and easily exposes the flaw in having drug consultants oversee the nation’s meals provide.
What’s the Answer?
It’s time to “GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA.” The F is Meals. The D is Medicine. We have to separate the FDA features between Meals (meals security and human diet) and Medicine (and medical gadgets). For too lengthy, these on the high of FDA have targeted on what they know and care about – medical medication and gadgets. And FDA meals points have been ignored and underfunded.
It’s time the White Home and the Congress take accountability for safeguarding the general public by breaking the FDA aside and creating a brand new devoted meals company. On the similar time, they should reject the Commissioner’s ineffective plan, and instantly direct the Commissioner to unify all elements of the meals program and price range below an empowered and accountable Deputy Commissioner.
I’m not the primary to name for a brand new meals company. Final 12 months, in an op-ed by Michael Taylor (a former FDA deputy Commissioner) put forth the concept of making a brand new meals company. And, final 12 months Consultant de Lauro and Senator Durbin launched laws that will set up a separate meals company.
I imagine this will work. Meals security is a bipartisan problem. The victims I’ve represented come from all political persuasions. And it’s a problem that has shopper teams, the meals business and state regulators all on the identical web page.
That’s why I’ve launched the “GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA” promoting marketing campaign.
On the heels of the toddler formulation disaster, I’ve launched the “GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA” promoting marketing campaign to induce Congress and the White Home to interrupt aside the FDA and create a brand new devoted meals company targeted on each meals security and diet.
The marketing campaign contains on-line commercials, social media promotion, and survivors of foodborne sickness coming to Washington DC to go to Congressional leaders and hand out “GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA” t-shirts.
“My objective in launching this marketing campaign is to say let’s make this occur now. I don’t need the failures of the FDA to create new victims I might want to characterize. Create a brand new meals company and ‘put me out of enterprise, please!’ I don’t need to must characterize households who could have misplaced their youngsters as a result of FDA doesn’t have the braveness to behave.”
