FDA warns against using Canadian home tests for pregnancy, HIV, drugs

[truthpusher]

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2914112

FDA warns against using Canadian home tests for pregnancy, HIV, drugs

WASHINGTON The government is warning that certain home diagnostic tests -- including some for pregnancy, syphilis and H-I-V infection -- can give false results.

The F-D-A says Canada-based Globus Media sells the test kits on several Web sites, but they haven't been approved for sale in the U-S. In fact, no home tests for H-I-V, syphilis or dengue fever are approved for U-S sale.

The Food and Drug Administration says anyone who's used the kits should get retested.

complete story here:

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2914112

[illflem]

1. But it's ok to eat their mad cow beef...

[CHIMO]

12. Ottawa pushes end to Net drug sales

OTTAWA—The federal government's plan to shut down Internet pharmacies to U.S. customers appears to have acquired new urgency over the past several weeks, with legislation expected as soon as the end of this month.

Though the Commons health committee voted to thoroughly study Internet pharmacies before Ottawa acts against them, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is reserving the right to act sooner if necessary.

"I will respect the deliberations of the committee but I will also act if it is in the national interest to act immediately," Dosanjh told the Commons late last week. The health minister may be ready to announce as soon as this week what legal options he's chosen, but he's left no doubt that the government wants to halt the sales of Canadian drugs south of the border as soon as possible.

Critics of the planned crackdown fear the haste has less to do with national interest and more with the interests of the United States. They worry the moves now in the works are being driven by a larger desire by Prime Minister Paul Martin's government to co-operate with U.S. President George W. Bush — perhaps even part of a deal to get the Canada-U.S. border reopened to now-banned beef traffic.




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[HEyHEY]

2. Oh for fuck sake

This is just another attempt to make any medical products from Canada seem inferior so that all the US drug companies can, once again, scare everyone into buying their shit.

[MissB]

15. No shit

I'm sure at least half of Americans call bullshit on this "announcement".

[Maple]

3. All mad cows in Canada came from US

and our pregnancy tests are from the US.

We don't have home tests for HIV, syphilis or dengue fever...DENGUE FEVER???...available at our local drug store. Sorry.

[HEyHEY]

5. What about home small pox and typhoid tests?

[Maple]

11. Yes, and our handy dandy

over the counter Ebola tests...cripes! :D

[bemildred]

4. All tests from anywhere can give false results. Morons. nt

[Spinzonner]

6. It's a correct decision

the Candians have an entirely different kind of reproductive process up there which isn't compatible with U.S. pregnancies.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. ROTFLMAO! And I thought it was because they were cheaper!

[NYC]

7. Read the article about Lipitor from Canada.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3069751

[Spazito]

9. There is nothing in that article that shows the test...

is Canadian manufactured, only that Globus Media hosts a website selling what ever it is. This article says nothing of value for anyone, imo.

It is the same old shit from the FDA that seems to come out on a regular cycle.

[HEyHEY]

10. What makes me laugh is how the FDA

Approves drugs with all these side-effects inteh US...that shit would NEVER go through up here... but yet, we're the ones with unsafe drugs.

[Spazito]

13. Yep, and add to that...

the FDA, the bush cabal and the US pharmaceutical companies cannot come up with ONE person harmed by buying CANADIAN drugs, repeat NOT ONE PERSON. It is laughable and so very, very obvious.

[buzzard]

18. I actually think many of the drugs could be replaced by naturopathic ones

but the pharmaceutical companies wouldn't like that because they don't have their fingers in that cookie jar yet. I think some of the long term clinical trials have been fixed to show that natural compounds don't work, when in fact they do, I have no proof just rumours from friends in the business of clinical trials.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. Not one?

[libodem]

14. Continues to be all about money and profits

for drug companies. Same with the scare tactics about pharmacuticals being unsafe or ineffective if they weren't made by a US drug manufacturer. Did you know that a lot of drugs are made overseas and brought into the US and put on the market throuth the big Pharmacutical companies. Someone is afraid Canada might make some of their money.

[Angry Girl]

16. The FDA will do anything to make the people dependent on....

the amazingly expensive U.S. health care system. They're also trying to put forth legislation so that vitamins and herbal supplements will become illegal to buy so you can't even treat yourself. The FDA is not even trying to keep poisons out of the food supply. In fact, they seem to be promoting it.

What are the increasing numbers of people without health insurance supposed to do?

Keel over and die, hopefully. Look at it this way: If you were a government with a population whose median age is getting older and older, you don't want to have to take care of them -- They're economic dead weight.

Far-fetched? Remember that "report by cigarette giant Philip Morris that said tobacco could save a government millions of dollars in health care and pensions because many smokers die earlier"?
http://www.canoe.ca/Health0107/17_smoking-ap.html

Well, it's the same thing: Feed the people crap with sugar, toxic dyes, pesticides, and aspartame (which was brought to you by Rumsfeld himself) and thenpollute their water and air and presto, they'll get sick! These folks then go to the hospitals and spend money on care and drugs. That's a good thing, in the government's view.

But once these people are older and incapacitated, they're drawing pensions and Social Security and costing the government money. If they no longer can pay into The System for drugs and treatment, they get eliminated.

Jeez, I didn't mean to rant so....

[CAcyclist]

21. How far the FDA has come since the days of the AIDS crisis

While "The Band Played On" was romanticized, it did show how the FDA helped figure out what AIDS was and how to control it. Gerberding was a hero then, now she is just a puppet figure - it is tragic , in my opinion, what she has come down to.

[napi21]

17. Yea, the same agency that recalled 3 different drugs the they

approved before! This whole thing is a bunch of BS. Every time I hear about "don't buy drugs from Canada" I think of the people who ask "How many people have you ever heard of that got sick from taking their Canadian drugs?"

You know, my cousin had a transplant, and has to take a lot of pills every day. Four of them aren't even made in the US at all. One is only made in Ireland, another only in Germany, another only in Denmark, and the other only in Switzerland. I don't hear the FDA screaming about those drugs being imported.

The FDA is grossly overrated!

[leesa]

19. Ahhh...the free market at work.

[CAcyclist]

20. Cool, they'll be spreading the message that these tests

are available on the internet and there is nothing they can do to stop you from ordering them. No test is 100% accurate.

[burrowowl]

23. There is a home test for syphillis?

I thought the Wasserman was the only one available (used to be given to get marriage license) and it takes a good bit of blood and lab test. I'm wary that Canada approves these among the others mentionned. I suppose that these tests can also be obtained in the U$ as well via e-mail or whatever, so ware the user of said tests.

[Triana]

24. bah. what a load of horseshit...

...glaxosmithkline/pfizer, et al strikes again, eh?

[d_b]

25. I'm scared

:scared:

[ConcernedCanuk]

26. Hmm - didn't they also warn people about the "dangers"

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of BC Bud?? :evilgrin: