BusinessFactor.orgBusiness news and commentaryLead warning: 150 million toys and trinkets sold in 700,000 vending machines can poison children with lead- November 23, 2005 What a great idea: build small trinkets with dangerous levels of lead, put them in 25-cent vending machines all around the world, and wait for kids to gobble them up... literally. The federal government is recalling 150 million of these vending machine toys because they contain dangerous levels of lead...http://www.newstarget.com/001292.html Questioning Avastin - the latest example of corruption and influence by drug companies and the FDA- November 23, 2005 Headlines are blaring it everywhere: the FDA has approved the first anti-angiogenesis drug to treat colorectal cancer! The stock of the manufacturer, Genentech, leaped 7%, and newspapers all over the country are heralding this drug as a momentous breakthrough. Even the FDA Commissioner got into...http://www.newstarget.com/000882.html |