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To: Morgana

Every drug that’s been pulled off the market has first been FDA approved. When can we sue the FDA?


2 posted on 02/23/2016 6:31:50 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

From now on lets make them test it on themselves and then if they live it’s safe.


3 posted on 02/23/2016 6:35:19 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: goodwithagun
Every drug that’s been pulled off the market has first been FDA approved. When can we sue the FDA?

Typically, drugs are tested on hundreds or thousands of volunteers before they can receive FDA approval. Rare side effects might not even be detected during clinical trials, due to the sample size. (For example, a side effect that occurs in 1 out of 10,000 users is unlikely to show up in a clinical trial of 2,000 users.) This is why pharmaceuticals are required to conduct "phase 4" trials, which means they have to collect data after the drug goes to market.

Neither the FDA nor drug companies are culpable for being unable to detect events so rare that they cannot be found until after the drug goes to market. The human beings that do the work at FDA and drug companies are no more omniscient than anyone else.

4 posted on 02/23/2016 6:43:24 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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