On 18/04/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-04-18 10:21 AM, taxed and spent wrote:
>
>> I am sure they contain chemicals that, in ridiculously high
>> quantities, will
>> cause cancer in cancer prone rat species.
>>
>> And no doubt they somehow contribute to global warming/climate
>> change/mankind is evil in whatever it does.
>
> I guess that you don't appreciate the value of testing toxicity in
> ingredients and medications as some of us do. Look at the case of
> Thalidomide. It was used in the 1950s and 60s for a variety of problems,
> one of them being morning sickness. It was determined to be the cause
> of thousands of babies being born will malformed or missing limbs. The
> US FDA refused to allow it. While there were more than 10,000
> Thalidomide babies born in the world, there were less than 2 dozen of
> them in the US.
>
>
Note that it was a Canadian Dr working at the FDA who wouldn't allow it.
She died a few months ago.

On 4/18/2016 8:44 AM, graham wrote:
> Note that it was a Canadian Dr


Canucklehead drunkard?

Ayup.

On 2016-04-18 10:44 AM, graham wrote:
> On 18/04/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2016-04-18 10:21 AM, taxed and spent wrote:
>>
>>> I am sure they contain chemicals that, in ridiculously high
>>> quantities, will
>>> cause cancer in cancer prone rat species.
>>>
>>> And no doubt they somehow contribute to global warming/climate
>>> change/mankind is evil in whatever it does.
>>
>> I guess that you don't appreciate the value of testing toxicity in
>> ingredients and medications as some of us do. Look at the case of
>> Thalidomide. It was used in the 1950s and 60s for a variety of problems,
>> one of them being morning sickness. It was determined to be the cause
>> of thousands of babies being born will malformed or missing limbs. The
>> US FDA refused to allow it. While there were more than 10,000
>> Thalidomide babies born in the world, there were less than 2 dozen of
>> them in the US.
>>
>>
> Note that it was a Canadian Dr working at the FDA who wouldn't allow it.
> She died a few months ago.


Yes, but the fact remains that it was the US FDA that would not allow it
on the market and, as a result, had very few victims.