A couple of weeks ago the FDA came down, hard, on the “do it yourself” “Personal Genome Service” tests offered by Google-affilliated “23andme.com”, effectively shutting down their sales.
Their concern was that the company was marketing the kits “in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act)” as the company (per the FCC letter) “… markets the PGS for providing “health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,” including categories such as “carrier status,” “health risks,” and “drug response,” and specifically as a “first step in prevention””.
This is one of those greyish areas between Big Gov’t as Big Nanny, but also with a company promoting a product as promising way above any scientifically valid data.
When even Forbes is on the side of the FDA… my head hurts. But I know better than to take acetaminophen… Oh, and make sure to read the Sci-Am article and comments.
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Category Archives: Human testing
23 Skiddoo to “23andme” chromosomal screening
EPA administrator has no knowledge of inhumane experiments?
Imagine that the Administrator of the US EPA would testify that she doesn’t know that the US EPA is funding and promoting unethical human exposure to small particulate air pollution experiments at 10 US Medical Schools?
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Michigan medical board refuses to investigate doc who admits to unsafe EPA human experiments
Apparently it does not violate the Michigan Public Health Code to conduct illegal and dangerous human experiments on behalf of the EPA. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA, Human testing
Now we know why UNC allows EPA to expose human guinea pigs to chlorine gas?
The Charlotte News & Observer reports: Continue reading
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EPA stonewalls records request re EPA-funded diesel exhaust tests on children
JunkScience.com has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with EPA for all records pertaining to EPA-funded research involving the exposure of CHILDREN to DIESEL EXHAUST, which occurred at the University of Southern California in the mid-2000s. Continue reading
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Defense: UMichigan doc innocent of illegal human testing because Steve Milloy a bad guy for defending business
A University of Michigan researcher defends colleague Robert Brook against allegations of illegal human testing by attacking Steve Milloy. Continue reading
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Michigan physician licensing board drops human testing complaint
Dropped after a week on the hand-scrawled recommendation of an unidentifiable board member. Continue reading
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North Carolina paper: EPA, UNC at center of human experiments scandal
The North Carolina Free Press reports: Continue reading
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UMichigan doc renounces human testing on air pollutant following JunkScience pressure
From Detroit News’ Henry Payne: Continue reading
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State of Michigan to investigate UMich doc for conducting illegal human experiments for EPA
Will Michigan cover-up illegal research conduct like North Carolina did? Continue reading
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CFACT files complaint against University of Michigan physician alleging illegal human testing
CFACT has filed a complaint with the state of Michigan’s Health Professions Division alleging that the University of Michigan’s Dr. Robert D. Brook has conducted illegal human experiments on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Continue reading
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Another shocking disclosure about the illegal EPA human testing experiments
JunkScience.com readers have previously learned that EPA has been subjecting human study subjects (without obtaining informed consent) to exceedingly high short-term exposures to diesel exhaust (2-hours at roughly 30x typical ambient PM2.5 exposures). You’ve also learned that these experiments have been conducted with exceedingly high short-term ozone exposures (i.e., 400 ppb, when the EPA 8-hour standard is 75 ppb). But we haven’t so far seen… Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Diesel, EPA, Human testing
Heinous scandal goes ignored by media: EPA’s unethical human testing
National outrage over the federal government’s abuse of power has seemingly hit critical mass over the past month as news about the Internal Revenue Service engaging in political targeting, government spying on AP reporters, the pending government prosecution of a Fox News reporter, and the revelation that the National Security Agency has likely been collecting data on every one of us has dominated the news.
Ignored in all the conversation about abuses is perhaps one of the most heinous of them all. Continue reading
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Dachau Redux: German researchers violate Nuremberg Code in new high altitude human experiment
You would think that 70 years after the high altitude experiments at Dachau, that researchers (especially German ones) would be more aware of the ethics of human research. And what about the Journal of American Medical Association publishing this ethical abomination? Continue reading
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Steve Milloy talks about EPA’s illegal human testing on CRF Radio
My segment starts at about 14:50 into the show and goes for about 30 minutes. Continue reading
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Measles surges in UK years after vaccine scare
“This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a record number of nearly 2,000 cases last year. The country once recorded only several dozen cases every year. It now ranks second in Europe, behind only Romania.” Continue reading
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East Germany allowed Western pharma firms to test new drugs in hospital patients without consent
Looks like news of the Nuremberg Code might not have traveled the 317 km from Nuremberg to Berlin until 1996. Continue reading
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North Carolina House to vote on ‘puppy mill’ bill — Meanwhile, bill to protect humans from illegal EPA diesel exhaust experiments put on hold
The puppy mill bill would accomplish little if anything. The EPA bill would protect people from rogue government. Guess which one advances… Continue reading
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EPA fights human testing FOIA request: Demands exorbitant fees for recent, easily accessible docs
The agency continues to obstruct independent investigation of its illegal human testing activities. Continue reading
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EPA fails to explain deletion of illegal diesel experiment on children from data base
In February we FOIA-ed EPA for an explanation of why/how a report describing an illegal experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust was deleted from its data base. EPA responded to our request today. Continue reading
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