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Re:Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in t... by ianai on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:08PM (#20967926)
“much of the regulation is based on good faith simply because the manpower required to verify everything made would be massive”

This is where I wish there were more tolerance for enough government spending to employ as many people as it would take to test properly. We’re talking about medication being used multiple times a day for long term-amongst many uses.

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Re:Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in t... by mirimir on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:50PM (#20968138)
The FDA has been downsized many times over the past three decades. So what we're seeing here is not at all unexpected.
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Re:Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in t... by refurb on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:22PM (#20968290)
The FDA’s budget is more than 6x what it was in 1992.[1]. An increased every year since then.

What do you mean downsized?

[1]https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44576.html#_Toc82198...

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Re:Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in t... by mirimir on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:29AM (#20969099)
That's no inflation adjusted. And it's also not adjusted for processing load. But it does show the greatly increased role of user fees, which I gather has facilitated regulatory capture.
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Re:Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in t... by refurb on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:04AM (#20969191)
Inflation hasn’t been 600% since 1992.

Not sure what processing load is, but if they’re asked to do more that could be an issue, but I wouldn’t call it a cut.

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Re:Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in t... by mirimir on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:06PM (#20972595)
I do remember reading about cuts in FDA resources. As an excuse for why they'd missed so many violations.

Checking, I see that it was Reagan era cuts.[0] So the timeline that you cited begins in 1992, which was probably the minimum funding level.[1,2]

Also, Hatch-Waxman was approved in 1984, which increased the workload considerably. And then there was the first generic drug scandal in the late 80s. That's what I was thinking of.

0) https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/29/1/202/24722...

1) https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44576.html#_Toc82198...

2) https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv106

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