The Hidden Danger Inside Your Medicine Cabinet
Amid a torrent of drug and product recalls from Big Pharma and consumer giants, the name of a tiny lab in Connecticut keeps popping up. Its name is Valisure, and its efforts to warn consumers about potentially dangerous items have infuriated manufacturers and irked the federal regulator that they fund.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to make sure the medications we take are effective-and safe. But when a small independent lab in Connecticut called Valisure started testing popular drugs and health products, it turned up some alarming results-including carcinogens and other dangerous substances. You might think the FDA would welcome this information. Not so fast.
Bloomberg reporter Anna Edney joins Big Take to talk about how Valisure’s findings have shined a light on serious flaws in the way medications are tested and approved. Valisure CEO David Light talks with Wes about how his lab identifies harmful substances in products, and how the FDA responded when he came forward with his lab’s findings. Then Dr. Diana Zuckerman, President of the National Center for Health Research, stops by to answer the question: Is the FDA too close to the companies it oversees? Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
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0:00 - 1:37: Regulators and drug safety
1:38 - 2:46: Valisure’s independent testing
2:47 - 4:22: NDMA in Zantac
4:23 - 4:49: Future of drug safety
4:50 - 5:22: Benzene in personal care products
5:23 - 6:21: Valisure and the FDA
6:22 - 7:05: Testing for Benzene contamination
7:06 - 8:19: Future studies and shortages
8:20 - 8:53: Statements
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Wow. The FDA is like FAA and Boeing.
@SWExplore
Ай бұрын
Exactly. Our government is NOT there to protect us; our government is there to protect the interests of corporations, banks, big pharma and a host of others.
@GodKing804
Ай бұрын
Useless agency made to protect the US gov and slow down progress
@revcrussell
Ай бұрын
It's called _regulatory capture_ and it is well-known thing.
@MRLONG758
Ай бұрын
@@GodKing804Underfunded and understaffed agency made to protect the consumers
@tvviewer4500
Ай бұрын
The fda is not a real thing. It’s just a mob front
The FDA's role in consumer protection has been called into question, with critics arguing that it prioritizes the interests of large pharmaceutical companies over public safety. An exposé reveals how the FDA has dismissed Valisure's findings and hindered their efforts to expose pharmaceutical misconduct. Allowing Big Pharma to self-regulate product safety is seen as dangerously flawed, reminiscent of the FAA's failed self-regulation policies with Boeing, which led to serious consequences.
@laviefu0630
Ай бұрын
Maybe some part of the credits go to the consultant agency like McKinsey which serve both FDA and the big pharma.
@salamandiusbraveheart4183
Ай бұрын
US gov is SO corrupt
@r3dp1ll
Ай бұрын
Just look at the C. jab ...
@lolalalia4119
Ай бұрын
The EPA, too! They allow chemical manufacturers to self-report chemical safety guidelines.
@leodler
Ай бұрын
@@r3dp1ll The fact you're responding to a bot and didn't realize it calls into question your ability to discern fact from fiction, regardless of how wrong whatever you're trying to suggest yourself obviously is lol.
It is alarming to realize that companies continue to disregard our safety, as has often been the case.
Same thing goes for the EPA and chemicals leaked into water supplies. The chemical manufacturers are allowed to tell the EPA whether it is save or not. Just like Boeing!
The FDA and the pharmaceutical companies cannot simply dismiss Valisure's claims - let them prove with data that the allegations are without basis . Ref benzene what is the safe threshold level if there is one .
Great job & reporting!
I actually given up on humanity long before covid
@colin1235421
Ай бұрын
Yeah, but you should not have to get cancer because of brushing your teeth or washing your hands. People that produce products must have their products tested frequently and held accountable for poisoning people.
The vocal fry is intense with this one. 💀💀💀 🤮🤮🤮
How is the FDA not being investigated???? 🤬🤬🤬
you'd think it would be cheaper to just send your stuff to independent testing
Thank you for the story this is so far beyond messed up and they know it's and now we know it's and now it's time for it to go
Great report and hope their work continues. I can't imagine what goes on with the unregulated supplement market.
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Hypocritical
Operation paper clip!
Im amazed how this big and important agencies given up on humanity.. FAA and FDA shame on u
FDA should take a hard look at itself.
I sold many many Zantacs. 🤮👿
He is doing gods work
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Seemed more like an infomercial for Valasure or whatever.
My late mother took Zantac successfully for a long time, and did not contract cancer. However, Pepcid was catastrophic for her health. Relabeling one as the other is *dangerous*!
The problem with our modern form of capitalism is that it’s played as a smash and grab. It’s not about doing things as well as possible. It’s about getting away with whatever is most profitable.
I’m glad that lab is around
Another way to fight cancer - perhaps this should get more funding globally... Multiple tests of every product out there per year is probably what is required.
My question is, are the chemicals in question actually bad for people or are they merely "known in the state of California" to be bad? edit: never mind. After watching the video, it's the latter. sensationalism at its' finest.
Abolish the FDA.
@lolalalia4119
Ай бұрын
We need reform, not abolishment. The FDA has been hamstrung by corporate capture, lobbying, and deregulations. The FDA is failing specifically because they lost the power to do their job. Same with the EPA and FAA. We need their oversight but our capitalist government has systematically inacted laws and legislations with the specific purpose of dismantling these oversight groups because they want the public to demand they be abolished. But if you notice, neither you nor others calling for their end say anything about who would replace the FDA, EPA, or FAA. This is exactly what corporate capitalists want: ZERO oversight and they want to blame you for it through plausible deniability.
Imagine shilling for Valisure are yall running out of content or what
@4:53 The amount of benzene in sunscreen is too little to have any significant effect on your health. Now I know I don't need to listen to anything written by this reporter thanks
@xcel5203
Ай бұрын
Have you done clinical testing and how have you determined the threshold limit ?
@mytravls
Ай бұрын
What she is referring to and was probably told by the manufacturers that benzene meets the regulations limit.
@mytravls
Ай бұрын
@@xcel5203these are determined by the EPA in the US under TSCA and REACH in the EU
@user-rh6ru5oz2o
Ай бұрын
@@xcel5203 PhD chemistry Lab Muffin did a pretty accessible explainer on this with proper citations with peer reviewed studies.
@rhyothemisprinceps1617
Ай бұрын
People are being exposed frequently over large areas of the body from childhood. Cancer rates among young people are increasing at an alarming rate. "Benzene affects the blood-forming system at low levels of occupational exposure, and *there is no evidence of a threshold. There is probably no safe level of exposure to benzene,* and all exposures constitute some risk in a linear, if not supralinear, and additive fashion." - from review article 'Advances in understanding benzene health effects and susceptibility'
F/ederal D/epopulation A/genda
@otearoa
Ай бұрын
Wouldn't be surprised
@lolalalia4119
Ай бұрын
You're forgetting to blame the lobbyists, capitalist corporations, and Trump for their role in deregulation. The FDA, EPA, and FAA were taken over by the installment of corporate leaders and politicians with a financial stake in the very industries that these organizations were created to monitor. This is further proven by whistle-blowers within these organizations that detail exactly how they are being forced to hide or alter data in order to benefit corporations.
This is not noble. Just fuel for scummy lawyers whether its ranitidine or talc powder. These people are not heroes.
@rhyothemisprinceps1617
Ай бұрын
'scummy lawyers' who get victims / victims' families money to cover their medical expenses and restitution for their pain and suffering. 'Scummy lawyers' are really the only people keeping you (somewhat) safe from being poisoned. That said, I would prefer it if the scummy people making these dangerous products would face criminal prosecution for their crimes.
@jacobmarley6781
Ай бұрын
I'm guessing you work for Sanofi, GSK, the FDA or someone like that. Or perhaps you are just a stockholder.
@AG-iu9lv
27 күн бұрын
And you fancy yourself a hero for this comment?
What part about population control do people keep forgetting... ❤
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Same thing goes for the EPA and chemicals leaked into water supplies. The chemical manufacturers are allowed to tell the EPA whether it is save or not. Just like Boeing!