http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/16/bayer-bees-drugs-business-media-bayer.html
The aspirin giant is under fire from the FDA, Congress, health advocates and now beekeepers. In this article beekeepers blame neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides produced by Bayer, for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder. They theorize that neonicotinoids disrupt bees' navigational abilities, making them dizzy and unable to find their way back to the hive. There is a movie coming to the U.S. this spring called "Vanishing of the Bees" which is a documentary of the declining population of bees worldwide. In this article you can also read how Bayer has had many hurtles with the FDA and Congress with its other products.
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Bayer, and for that matter, all other drug companies will always be have a bullseye on their backs. Now days, there are not safe products (at least none that are 100% safe to all people and all the environment.) With each product produced, theare are sacrifices made to the environment - all withe the hopes of improving conditons for mankind.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the disclaimers on products are placed there as legal protection for the producing company but seem to cause more consumer panic than anything. Yes, the usage of some products can have severe or deadly consequences. In order to arrive at these conclusions, the products are tested for months and even years upon animals which are given nothing else but the product. Do you mean to tell me that if you lived on one product and one product only for x-amount of time, day in and day out, it wouldn't cause cancer or other diseases?
Simply restated, every product produced will cost mankind - whether it be to natural resources, general health or the environment as a whole - there will be sacrifice. And yes, the public will continue to purchase these products, despite it!
Consumers are unsure of many pharmatheutical knowledge and businesses don't want anybody knowing there secret. Lawyers are gold
ReplyDeleteI work for a pharmaceutical company, and yes there are some risks when it comes to testing and administering drugs. However, it is the pharmaceutical companies' duty to ensure the safety of the drug provided. If a drug is knowingly harmful to the consumer then it should not be on the market...period.
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