FDA Executive Officer Exposes Close Ties Between Agency and Pharmaceutical Companies
FDA Executive Officer Exposes Close Ties Between Agency and Pharmaceutical Companies: Almost a Billion Dollars a Year Going into FDAs Budget from the People we Regulate FDA Executive Officer Chris Cole: The drug companies, the food companies, the vaccine companies. So, they pay us hundreds of millions of dollars a year to hire and keep the reviewers to approve their products. Cole on FDA fees: Congress approved user fees for the FDA. Basically, we charge the industry millions of dollars in order to hire more drug reviewers and vaccine reviewers which will speed up the approval process. So, they pharmaceutical companies make more money. Cole: They FDA tone down the impact of the user fees on their operations because they know theyre dependent on the drug companies, and the vaccine companies, and these other companies for their agency to operate. Cole on blowing the whistle: Theres not an incentive to speak out in government, surprisingly. You would think there would b
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