Part One: The Food And Drug Administration

Behind the Bastards

Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss the Food And Drug Administration.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. Blum, Deborah. The Poison Squad (pp. 84-85). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/upton-sinclair-meat-industry 
  3. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/19th-century-fight-bacteria-ridden-milk-embalming-fluid-180970473/
  4. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat Marion Nestle Basic (2018)
  5. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07038-0
  6. https://today.uconn.edu/2021/05/why-is-the-fda-funded-in-part-by-the-companies-it-regulates-2/#
  7. https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294967770
  8. https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/5470430/timeline-the-rise-and-fall-of-vioxx
  9. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5462419
  10. https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/health/fda-approval-drug-events-study/index.html
  11. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/has-the-drug-based-approach-to-mental-illness-failed/
  12. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-fda-failures-contributed-opioid-crisis/2020-08
  13. https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/when-and-why-was-fda-formed#:%7E:text=Though%20FDA%20can%20trace%20its,Pure%20Food%20and%20Drugs%20Act.
  14. https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2005/05/30/Whistleblowers-reveal-FDA-exacerbated-Vioxx-scandal
  15. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/14/399591292/why-the-fda-is-clueless-about-some-of-the-additives-in-our-food
  16. https://blogs.edf.org/health/2020/09/23/fdas-failure-food-chemical-safety-chronic-diseases/

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