Our tax dollars are being used to help defend drug companies

who are being sued for defective/harmful products.

http://www.thememoryblog.org/archives/000393.html
FDA's Lead Attorney Helping Corporations Get Out of Lawsuits

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For the first time in FDA's history the FDA's Chief Counsel is actively soliciting private industrial company lawyers to bring him cases in which the FDA can intervene in support of drug and medical device manufacturers. The cases he is seeking out are private state civil litigation cases. These are cases in which in which drug companies and medical device manufacturers are being sued by people harmed by their products. The court has not asked for FDA involvement in these cases.

In other words, FDA is spending taxpayer dollars to defend drug companies who are being sued in state court. Since August 2001, the FDA has expended over 600 hours to file at least six briefs on behalf of these companies in four such cases across the country.

These bastards have no shame, no shame at all.

I wear an insulin pump and have for several years.

A few years ago, another insulin pump was found to discharge the ENTIRE reservoir of insulin if the pump happened to get wet. Insulin shock AND water are indeed a deadly combination. The company voluntarily recalled every pump, but would they have done os out of the goodness of their itty-bitty hearts, especially with no liability worries?

Doubtful.

I hope AARP and others get all over this.

Edit: nominated for the homepage, this oughta rile lots of people.

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Followed your link which led to Rep. Hinchley's site: http://www.house.gov/hinchey/issues/fda.shtml He deserves a thank you!

Thanks for posting this.

After:

According to FDA, Mr. Troy worked an average of less than 80 hours per year on matters related to Pfizer. Congressman Hinchey later discovered that Pfizer paid Mr. Troy's law firm $415,000 over three years for work performed directly by Mr. Troy. This included over $358,000 in 2001, the year Mr. Troy was appointed to his FDA post.

On a bipartisan basis, the House Appropriations Committee included language written by Congressman Hinchey in the Agriculture Appropriations report, expressing concern about the misleading nature of FDA's answer.

Congressman Hinchey tried to limit the FDA's funding. The FDA is of course going after Hinchey with lies and intimidation.

It is evident the FDA and Mr. Troy works for the drug companies now and will harm anyone who gets in the way of their misappropriation of our tax dollars and our public trust.