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...shelf. To his astonishment, the first can tested at .75 parts per million of mercury, 50% above the .5-ppm level considered safe by the Food and Drug Administration. How did the mercury, an industrial waste, taint the tuna, which live in midocean? No one yet knows. But following FDA tests of Grand Union and Van Camp brands last week, thousands of cans of tuna have been removed from stores in six states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, where the tuna was originally packed...
...Administration jumped into a medical dispute this fall when it warned doctors to restrict their use of tolbutamide, an orally administered antidiabetes drug. Now the dispute has grown into an angry battle. Meeting recently in Boston, 34 of the nation's leading diabetologists joined forces to denounce the FDA warning and question the study upon which it was based...
...same criticism applies to combinations of two antibiotics, or of one antibiotic with a sulfa: the FDA believes firmly that these fixed-dosage forms are likely to give a patient either too much or too little of one drug or the other. But many physicians have gone on prescribing them. The most noted example was Upjohn's Panalba (tetracycline with novobiocin), which is now off the market. Soon to follow, if FDA has its way: Squibb's Mysteclin-F (tetracycline with amphotericin B) and Roerig's Signemycin line (tetracycline with troleandeomycin...
Also under FDA attack are several drugs used against high blood pressure and blood clotting, some diuretics and products containing synthetic hormones. Among the odds and ends that the FDA wants to see no more: Winthrop's Alevaire, for asthma; CIBA's Bradosol throat lozenges; Parke-Davis' Phemerol. a skin antiseptic; and Lever Bros.' Pepsodent Antiseptic Mouthwash...
...circulating its list to federal agencies, notably the armed forces and the VA, which treat millions of patients, the FDA was certain at least to cut down sales of the proscribed items...