Is the FDA pulling cold medicine off shelves? Likely soon, because it’s a bureaucratic nightmare that no longer has the public interest at heart.
, caused mainly by absurd FDA policies restricting the import of high-quality European formula. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention got that debacle started by outlawing any tests except the one it had designed — which turned out not to work.
But then the FDA fumbled massively on expedited OKs for all the labs developing rapid at-home COVID tests during the worst of the pandemic: By one account, the agency’s backlog in processing emergency-use applications hit 3,000. Consider the Kafkaesque saga of morning-sickness drug Benedictin, whose maker pulled it off the US market in the ’80s over claims it caused birth defects.claims: The drug stayed on the market in Canada for decades — and the FDA finally re-approved it under a different name in 2013.
More madness: The agency regulates sunscreen as though it were a drug, leaving US beachgoers with far fewer options than in Europe or Asia. Heck, the current FDA head, Robert Califf, is still banging the drum about the need for government regulations againsta sclerotic, bureaucratic nightmareSo while you sniffle and cough your way through the upcoming winter, remember to “thank” the FDA.
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