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AngryToxicologist is a scientist in the public health sector, knows plenty about toxicology, and is occasionally angry about it all. Drop me a line at tox@angrytoxicologist.com.

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Any money I would have gotten from writing this blog is donated to the National Capital Poison Control Center. They rely on grants, save lives, and decrease health care costs. So read this blog every day!

What I'm reading, watching, and rating:

SawMichael Clayton*** out of 5

ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5

SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.

Regulations:

"Kick the FDA" sweeping the nation as the favorite cocktail party game

In today's New England Journal of Medicine there are two articles worth reading, especially for us critics of the FDA. Playing 'Kick the FDA' -- Risk Free to Players but Hazardous to Public Health is a good reminder of where...

Best way to reduce animals in tox test and other thoughts

I'm waiting around for a meeting (about animal testing!) and thought I'd share a few things that I've been thinking about. 1) While we're not going to stop using animals for testing in a long time it is a good...

Our secret files contradict your assertion. Trust us.

There's something rotten in Bethesda Public Citizen released, and the WaPo reported on, findings that the CPSC manytimes takes six months or more to alert the public of dangerous products. Never fear, says the National Association of Manufacturers, the CPSC...

FDA says cloned beef is safe to eat, not necessarily a good idea.

So the FDA says that cloned meat is safe and this is making big news. Well, this isn't much of a surprise, it's unlikely that a clone would be unsafe (it's a clone of a naturally healthy animal!). What sucks...

Get a friggin' backbone, FDA

The NYTimes reports today on an upcoming HHS OIG (Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General) report among other things audited less than 1% of clinical trial testing sites. When they did show up it was usually after...

Congress passed FDARA. What the heck does that mean?

I've been AWOL this week on SB; life, apparently, is not concerned with what is convienent for you. Anywho... The House on thursday passed the FDA reform bill (H.R. 3580) by a huge margin (405-7) and the Senate passed it...

CPSC, Start Working Out!

Over at the Pump Handle, David Michaels has a post on how ineffectual the CPSC is. He makes the point that the CPSC is "toothless", wimpy and uses a NYTimes article that talks about the Magnetix case as an example of...

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