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...Food and Drug Administration was under heavy attack last week. In Washington, eleven FDA physicians and other researchers told a Senate subcommittee that they had been harassed, transferred to other projects and sometimes overruled when they recommended against approval of new drugs they had tested. Another devastating blow to the FDA was the publication of the book Eating May Be Hazardous to Your Health (Simon & Schuster; $7.95). It is an exposé of the agency by one of its own employees, Biochemist Jacqueline Verrett, who got her doctorate at Fordham University...
Whopping Levels. So far, at least, there is no clear evidence that consumers are in any danger from VC. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have, as a precautionary measure, put a halt to the distribution of spray products using VC propellants.* The FDA had already ordered companies to stop bottling whisky in PVC bottles; whisky dissolves the plastic. Other PVC products offered to the consumer have yet to be proved unsafe...
...FDA ruling states that vitamin pills containing more than 10,000 units of vitamin A can be sold by prescription only...
...Recent FDA research using high dosages of the vitamin produced brain damage in test animals. In addition, hemorrhages and loss of hair have afflicted patients receiving in excess of 100,000 units a day, but the condition is rare. The FDA's recommended adult dosage is 5,000 units...
Francis A. Boyle, a graduate student who tried unsuccessfully to return his bottle of Myadec to College House Pharmacy when he realized that the pills contained too much vitamin A, said Monday he was going to file a complaint with the FDA...