Letter: FDA has wrong priorities
The article about hydrocodone restrictions still being under review doesn't surprise me ["Eyeing drug restrictions," News, Aug. 21]. The armed agents of the Food and Drug Administration are too busy knocking down the doors of Amish farmers supplying healthy raw milk to those requesting it.
The FDA is also too busy working on ways to ban dietary supplements to be troubled with their sanctioned drugs that Americans are swallowing at record levels. The FDA is too busy keeping health claims from being put on a package of walnuts, while letting corn chip makers make nonsensical claims about their manufactured food.
The FDA seems to be solely the enforcement arm for the big food and drug corporations. Key personnel move into the FDA from these very companies, so it should be no surprise that it takes a lot of deaths to get a drug on the market removed or limited, while products that are truly healthy or harmless are scrutinized and demonized with fervor.
If something is deemed as a threat to the profits of the large drug and food manufacturers, you can be sure that the FDA will soon be shutting it down or banning it. The FDA itself should be shut down.
Ken Vatter, Centereach
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