Posted on 11/19/2009 6:13:59 AM PST by Scythian
NaturalNews) The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report indicting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for allowing health professionals convicted of crimes to perform research for the agency and to supervise patients' safety during clinical trials.
The FDA is required by law to disqualify from positions within its organization doctors that have been convicted of fraud or other crimes. Yet the GAO is publicizing that it takes an average of four years for criminals to be disbarred from their positions.
In one case, a doctor who was convicted of 53 counts of criminal offense was allowed to remain at the FDA for 11 years before action was taken. The doctor's offenses included bribing an employee to cover up a patient suicide that occurred during a clinical trial and prescribing drugs without a license.
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From such workers come the “studies” which
sprout rationing of medicine, surgery and
radiologic diagnosis.
I guess that would explain all the corruption in that agency.
bump
The FDA is the most corrupt Dept in the US Government.
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