Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Feb 6, 2011 |
''Area doctors receiving speaking fees from drug companies'' "Over the last two years, seven of the biggest drug companies in the nation paid more than $770,000 in speaking and consulting fees to 52 area doctors and other medical professionals whose specialities range from cardiology to urology." Source: The Times-Tribune |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Feb 3, 2011 |
''Drug money- Is your doc receiving payments from the pharmaceutical industry?'' "A dozen UC Davis Medical Center doctors and many more in the greater Sacramento area received some $1.1 million from pharmaceutical companies in 2009 and the first half of 2010. Physicians and employers say the relationship is a necessity to marry scientific expertise to corporate innovation. But watchdogs, and even the federal government, are taking a close look at the uncertain relationship between medicine and business." Source: Sacramento News & Review |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Conflicts of Interest |
| Jan 31, 2011 |
''Environmental Groups Get In Some Target Practice'' "The otherwise-routine reauthorization of the Consumer Product Safety Commission this year demonstrated the environmental movement's growing clout over the chemical industry. The new law, advocates say, reverses long-standing practice because it requires the chemical industry to prove the safety of some products before they reach the public." Source: National Journal |
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| Jan 31, 2011 |
''Toxic Suspicions Could Fuel Regulatory Overhaul'' "Environmentalists want to ban BPA -- and also shift the burden of proof for all chemicals." Source: National Journal |
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| Jan 26, 2011 |
''Potential for 'Super Bugs' in Meat, Dairy Products Alarms Regulators'' "At a one-day conference in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by the nonprofit consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest and The Pew Charitable Trusts, food safety experts and officials agreed that decades-long misuse of antibiotics on the nation's farms has been largely responsible for the steady increase in e.coli, salmonella and other food-related outbreaks in recent years." Source: DailyFinance |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 12, 2011 |
"Crisis" is not too strong a word for describing what has happened to antibiotics. As our use of the drugs rises every year in the United States, bacterial resistance has risen right alongside it: there isn't a single known antibiotic to which bacteria have not become resistant ..."
Source: The Huffington Post |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 9, 2011 |
''Consumer 10.0: Food safety finally gets its due'' The incredible, edible egg - or at least those coming from two rodent-infested Iowa egg farms - caused 1,937 traceable illnesses from Salmonella enteritidis last year, which means the contaminated eggs probably sickened nearly 60,000 people nationwide. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 22, 2010 |
''Food Safety Bill Focuses on Prevention, Creates Recall Power'' "...Foodborne illness remains a major problem in the U.S. One in six Americans becomes ill from tainted food each year. Three thousand people die. The new law comes after a series of outbreaks linked to spinach, peanuts, eggs, and other foods. Among other things, it gives the FDA the power to issue recalls, do more inspections, and for the first time would require food importers to verify their products meet U.S. safety standards. Erik Olson of the Pew Charitable Trust was one of those who worked with Congress to shape the legislation." Source: PBS NewsHour |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 10, 2010 |
''Top-name drug recalls a bitter pill for consumers'' "Industry officials and experts say the rise of well-known product names on major recalls is partly due to enhanced regulatory scrutiny." Source: Reuters |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Nov 6, 2010 |
''Drugs, Supplements come to U.S. from China largely unregulated'' "Federal regulators have inspected only a fraction of the hundreds of Chinese factories making prescription drugs for the U.S. market, a new report from the Government Accountability Office says." Source: The Kansas City Star |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
