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by firesteelrain 360 days ago
I don’t see how. FDA is widely respected.
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The FDA has been approving generics from factories known to have repeatedly failed prior audits or had products recalled for quality issues without re-inspecting the factories or inspecting the drugs on import. And they're doing it via a special process that bypasses the ordinary review process and over the objections of many of the inspectors.
Was just reading about this one a few weeks ago, I couldn't find the article again but I believe it was based around the book Bottle of Lies. Basically the political pressure to keep drugs available and costs down has them looking the other way. And it has been going on since at least the Obama administration IIRC.
15 years ago the president was widely respected.
16 years ago not so much.
In both cases, the FDA was generally run and staffed by non-political people who were at least vaguely competent. I have plenty of issues with how the FDA operated, but it didn’t matter much who was president.

Today, most of the Cabinet positions are held by people who love to talk, who are generally extremely wealthy and/or well connected, and who are generally unqualified for their jobs. And, even more relevantly, they have been very heavily interfering in the operation of their respective departments.

Not after the opioid crisis in the US. That was the job of the FDA to prevent that exact scenario. They approved Purdue Pharma opioids for non-chronic usage when European/Canadian regulators did not. Hence why the crisis was largely contained to the United States.
Canada has had many opioid-related overdoses and deaths: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/op...

The numbers seems roughly proportional to US opioid deaths (though I haven’t taken a detailed look, and there may be differences in the way deaths are categorized): https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...

Is it?

Australia wont import FDA certified beef. For great reason.

I think you mean USDA.

Australia doesn’t allow most USDA beef because of strict biosecurity rules.

Australia’s one of the world’s biggest beef exporters. There’s not much incentive for them to open the door to a competitor unless the protocols align perfectly.

So the FDA has no hand in Beef?
To my knowledge no