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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalifornia judge OKs FDA decision to approve additive banned in 150 countries.
Last Thursday, a federal judge in California dismissed two lawsuits claiming the Food and Drug Administration illegally approved a dangerous drug for use in animal feed.
The lawsuits were filed by the Center for Food Safety, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, United Farmworkers of America, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and the Humane Society of the United States. The Center for Food Safety originally filed the suit against the FDA in November 2014, stating the agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedure Act when it approved an animal feed additive that contained the controversial drug ractopamine hydrochloride.
Ractopamine is part of a class of drugs known as beta-agonists, which are intended to add muscle weight to animals before they are led to slaughter. Ideally, the drug helps animals gain weight while eating less, resulting in reduced costs. However, imports of beef, pork, and turkey with ractopamine are banned in 150 countries, including China, Russia, and member states of the European Union. Japan, the United States, Canada, South Korea, and 27 other countries still assert meat containing ractopamine is safe for human consumption.
The plaintiffs argued the FDA approved drugs manufactured by Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly, without properly testing ractopamine. An investigation by the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) found that ractopamine is fed to an estimated 60 to 80% of pigs in the United States and has resulted in more reports of sickened or dead pigs than any other livestock drug on the market. In FDA records released under a Freedom of Information Act, FERN found that as of March 2011, 160,000 pigs administered the drug were reported to have suffered adverse effects including hyperactivity, trembling, broken limbs, paralysis, and death.
Elanco Companion Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly's Elanco, had previously filed a motion to dismiss the suits, claiming the defendants lacked standing because of their failure to exhaust administrative remedies. U.S. District Judge Yvonne González Rogers agreed and dismissed the lawsuit. The judge made no mention of the adverse health effects witnessed in animals.
At: http://www.myhealthycaregroup.com/judge-oks-fda-decision-to-approve-additive-banned-in-150-countries/
roody
(10,849 posts)Is Monsatan behind this? No, Eli Lily Satan. Pork is out.
Archae
(46,337 posts)Because they were bullshit.
So is the website you got this from.
Headlines there:
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Absolute woo.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Of course it's only by Sun sign http://www.myhealthycaregroup.com/eat-healthy-according-zodiac-sign/
And ignoring biochemistry in order to eat not healthily but Alkaline? It's gotta be good!
Seriously, promoting cure alls to scared people is unethical.
100% pure "natural" bullshit.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Reminds me of the goofy shit from, I think it was Wholefoods, and their expensive Asparagus Water!
Archae
(46,337 posts)Was sold for $6 a half-pint.
Rex
(65,616 posts)My parents said I missed my calling as a televangelist...I got the southern drawl down to an artform...you think 44 is too old? I live in south Texas where we have a church in a trailer that has a huge following, because you can drink beer in the pews.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)It's twoo, it's twoo!
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Like anyone could take on Eli Lilly in the first place. That is like taking on Microsoft...good luck with that. My guess is that these 150 countries won't play ball with Lilly and get their feed from other foreign markets.
China and Russia don't like it, Japan and the USA does...maybe it is a political thing. Wouldn't be the first time for that.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Center for Food Safety -> http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/search/ractopamine-hydrochloride
Sierra Club -> http://www.sierraclub.org
Center for Biological Diversity -> http://www.biologicaldiversity.org
United Farmworkers of America -> http://www.ufw.org
Animal Legal Defense Fund -> http://aldf.org
Humane Society of the United States -> http://www.humanesociety.org
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/11/10/groups-want-animal-feed-additive-banned.htm
Stay tuned.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)I really dislike misleading headlines.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)If your headline is a lie, it tends to make me doubt the "facts" being presented.