NYTimes: Kennedy Wants to Overhaul the F.D.A. Here’s How Experts Would Change It.
1. Stop relying so much on industry funding.
2. Crack down on employees’ industry connections.
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I knew if I waited long enough there would likely be something I could agree with RFK Jr on and number 1 might be it. That's one in a row for me and RFK. I have worked as a corporate representative to 3 federal agencies for 30 years. In one agency corporate lobbying legislatively manipulated the agency's funding and then "magnanimously" offered to make up for the shortfall themselves. The result was the industry had great influence on how they were regulated by the agency allowing the rabbit to carry the carrot, so to speak. The FDA/Paramedical incestual relationship appears to me to lend itself to the self interests of the paramedical industry possibly at the detriment of the needs of the public.
2. All agencies I know of trade personnel with the industries that serve them. As the article explains this is both detrimental and beneficial. There may be "tweaks" to the systems that could be made, but my present view is the process in more beneficial to the public than problematic.
Just a two-bit opinion on a not fully work day, or holiday.
1. Stop relying so much on industry funding.
2. Crack down on employees’ industry connections.
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I knew if I waited long enough there would likely be something I could agree with RFK Jr on and number 1 might be it. That's one in a row for me and RFK. I have worked as a corporate representative to 3 federal agencies for 30 years. In one agency corporate lobbying legislatively manipulated the agency's funding and then "magnanimously" offered to make up for the shortfall themselves. The result was the industry had great influence on how they were regulated by the agency allowing the rabbit to carry the carrot, so to speak. The FDA/Paramedical incestual relationship appears to me to lend itself to the self interests of the paramedical industry possibly at the detriment of the needs of the public.
2. All agencies I know of trade personnel with the industries that serve them. As the article explains this is both detrimental and beneficial. There may be "tweaks" to the systems that could be made, but my present view is the process in more beneficial to the public than problematic.
Just a two-bit opinion on a not fully work day, or holiday.
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