Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
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| Jul 8, 2010 |
''Resistant to urgent action'' "Antibiotics, it’s what’s for dinner. Antibiotics, the other white meat. Antibiotics, it’s whatever the poultry industry’s slogan is." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2010 |
''Our view on food safety: To protect humans, curb antibiotic use in animals'' "Antibiotics are modern wonder drugs, but their weakness is that they can gradually put themselves out of business." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2010 |
''Antibiotics, meat a risky mix'' "Federal regulators have tip-toed around the issue of antibiotics in the nation's meat supply for years." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 10, 2010 |
"Consumers beware: Credit-card companies already are finding ways around the new law designed to crack down on their tricky fees and hidden charges. The Credit Card Accountability Act of 2009 was intended to stop lenders' unfair practices, such as jacking up a cardholder's interest rate without warning or shortening billing cycles. For the most part, the law is working." |
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| Aug 14, 2010 |
''The Drug Safety and Accountability Act is overdue'' "The Drug Safety and Accountability Act, a bill filed today by Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) is long overdue in protecting American citizens from unsafe drugs." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Aug 24, 2010 |
''The Customer Always Comes Last'' "The credit card industry is working hard to subvert the Credit Card Act of 2009, which banned many of the industry’s most predatory practices. The Federal Reserve Board, which oversees and coddles this industry, needs to ensure that consumers get the protections Congress intended, and Americans so clearly need. The Fed also needs to take a hard look at problems cited last month by the Pew Charitable Trust Safe Credit Cards Project." |
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| Sep 2, 2010 |
''Delhi's Fake Drug Whitewash'' Counterfeit drug expert Roger Bate said that a report issued by India's Central Drug Standard Control Organization this summer indicating that less than .1% of drugs sampled in the country were fakes is flawed and contradicts well-established findings by the government and scholars that suggest the number of counterfeits is much higher. |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Sep 21, 2010 |
"Most of the antibiotics sold in the United States — 70 percent — go to the animals we eat, especially pigs and chickens. To speed up growth and to prevent the spread of disease in crowded conditions, growers put small amounts of antibiotics into animals’ daily feed." |
Medical Safety, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 26, 2010 |
''It's enough to make you sick'' "Once again, federal lawmakers failed to take action on much-needed food safety legislation." |
Food Safety |
| Sep 28, 2010 |
''Tougher food safety rules long overdue'' "The House committee hearing last week on the summer's recall of 550 million eggs is exhibit A in the fight for tougher oversight by the Food and Drug Administration." |
