FDA = Fucking Dumb Asses

I know governmental agencies are fucked. I understand that the word ethics and government agencies are very rarely found together. But this is just plain ridiculous...

Everyone has heard of the recall of infant's cold medications. What few people realize, normally because they're too busy bitching that we no longer have the Dimetapp they want, is the lack of studies on said medications.

The drugs - they include some Dimetapp, Pediacare, Robitussin and Triaminic products - have never been tested in children, which a previous FDA panel noted as long ago as 1972. Drug makers instead have used extrapolated data from studies in adults to come up with dosing recommendations based on a child's age or size.

So these items have been on the market and used for over 30 years... yet there has never been tested on that which it is market towards. Surely one would think our own government would research items which are ingested by our young.

The medicines are widely used, with an estimated 95 million packages sold for infant and toddler use each year.

Thats a lot of medication being sold and used without any proper studies being conducted. But wait, it gets far worse.

A Food and Drug Administration panel of advisers voted yesterday to ban scores of popular over-the-counter cough and cold products intended for children under the age of 6 because they have not been shown to work and can cause injuries

Obviously these people have never seen the relief received from a 5 year old from one of these items. To flatout state that these drugs have no benefit on children is ludicrous. I understand that there are people out there who should not be parents. I also understand that these said people have a difficult time reading the directions on the packaging which has led to the OD'ing of their child on said medication. But does this justify stating that these medications do not work whatsoever?

That being said if common sense was merely used, if patients actually consulted with their doctor and/or pharmacist, then the deaths associated with OD'ing could have been avoided. Still doesn't change the fact that the FDA is a bunch of jackasses. Hmmm that gives me an idea for a cartoon to draw in class tomorrow...