http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/health/policy/28fda.html?_r=1
&ref=health&oref=slogin or http://tinyurl.com/2uolso
(quote)
The F.D.A. has 200 inspectors, some of whom audit clinical trials part
time, to police an estimated 350,000 testing sites. Even when those
inspectors found serious problems in human trials, top drug officials in
Washington downgraded their findings 68 percent of the time, the report
found. Among the remaining cases, the agency almost never followed up
with inspections to determine whether the corrective actions that the
agency demanded had occurred, the report found.
“In many ways, rats and mice get greater protection as research subjects
in the United States than do humans,” said Arthur L. Caplan, chairman of
the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
(end of quote)
Actually, the worst part IMO is the 'downgrading' of the findings. Why
send inspectors at all?
Chak
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Authority from truth, not truth from authority.
--Freethinkers' motto
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