Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information from regulators and the public.
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https://www.reuters.com/i(...)onandjohnson-cancer/
En zo zijn er vele zaken waarbij Big Pharma niet al te goed voor de dag komt:
In the last few years pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay over $13 billion to resolve U.S. Department of Justice allegations of fraudulent marketing practices, including the promotion of medicines for uses that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Here are summaries of some recent large settlements.
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma
Nog een site:
Twenty-Seven Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991 Through 2017
https://www.citizen.org/a(...)s-1991-through-2017/
In principe crimineel gedrag, maar als bedrijf krijg je vaak een boete en daarmee is het probleem blijkbaar opgelost.
Ergo, dit interesseert niemand.
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p.s, ik steek er nog een op
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Of Diesels, iedereen die veel rijdt met een Diesel heeft wel zeker een overlijden aan kanker op zijn geweten.quote:Op zondag 11 april 2021 01:54 schreef DeMolay het volgende:
een woord "tabaksindustrie"
p.s, ik steek er nog een op
Daar wéét iedereen het van...quote:
een woord "tabaksindustrie"
p.s, ik steek er nog een op
Van babypoeder niet....
Tabak is heel lang verkocht dat het gezond was. Mijn opa is gaan roken omdat hij dan niet zijn tanden hoefde te poetsen. Het klinkt nu als onzin, maar de wereld is veel veranderd.quote:
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Daar wéét iedereen het van...
Van babypoeder niet....
Talkpoeder is al vrij lang geen ding meer gelukkig. En zo laat iedere generatie wel wat afval in het verleden.
Menstruatiestoornisquote:
Impotentie.quote:
Hoe zit het met asbest verontreiniging in talkpoeder?
Er zijn meldingen geweest van asbestverontreiniging in cosmeticaproducten waar talk in zit, zoals oogschaduw en talkpoeder. Asbest is een mineraal en komt van nature vaak voor in de buurt van talklagen in de aarde. In mijnen waar talk wordt gewonnen, kan daarom ook asbest als mineraal zitten; de zuiverheid van de talk verschilt van plaats tot plaats. Tegenwoordig zijn er mijnbouwmethoden die asbestverontreiniging in talk voorkomen.
Asbest kan borstvlies- en buikvlieskanker (mesothelioom), longkanker, kanker in het strottenhoofd en eierstokkanker veroorzaken. Ook andere vormen van kanker kunnen veroorzaakt worden door asbest (kanker in de keelholte, maag en dikke darm). Asbestvezels zijn klein genoeg om door te dringen tot weefsels, zoals diep in de longen, en hopen zich daar op. Dit kan leiden tot een langdurige ontstekingsreactie, fibrose, en uiteindelijk tumorvorming.
Volgens de Europese Cosmeticaverordening (1223/2009/EG) is asbest in cosmetische producten, zoals talkpoeder, niet toegestaan. Daarom zijn producenten verantwoordelijk om talkpoeder te zuiveren. Toch kan het voorkomen dat niet alle asbestvezels uit het talk worden gehaald. Producenten moeten ervoor zorgen dat deze hoeveelheid zo laag mogelijk is, maar er is geen grenswaarde die aangeeft hoe weinig asbestvervuiling er in talk mag achterblijven.
Wat is de stand van zaken?
De NVWA en de Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport (ILT) deden in 2018 uitgebreid onderzoek naar het voorkomen van asbestvezels in bijna 300 verschillende cosmetische producten op de Nederlandse markt. In twee daarvan, een blusher en een oogschaduw, werden asbestvezels gevonden. Deze twee producten zijn door de NVWA uit de handel gehaald. Het kankerrisico door het gebruik van deze producten werd ingeschat als beperkt, ervan uitgaande dat de totale blootstelling aan asbest bij inademing door het gebruik van deze producten maar kort is.
https://waarzitwatin.nl/producten/talkpoeder
Bayer verkoopt met HIV besmette medicatie in Afrika en Azie, nadat het in Europa van de markt moest worden gehaald:
2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80's: Riskier One Steered Overseas
A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs -- medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS -- to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980's while selling a new, safer product in the West, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
The Bayer unit, Cutter Biological, introduced its safer medicine in late February 1984 as evidence mounted that the earlier version was infecting hemophiliacs with H.I.V. Yet for over a year, the company continued to sell the old medicine overseas, prompting a United States regulator to accuse Cutter of breaking its promise to stop selling the product.
By continuing to sell the old version of the life-saving medicine, the records show, Cutter officials were trying to avoid being stuck with large stores of a product that was proving increasingly unmarketable in the United States and Europe.
Yet even after it began selling the new product, the company kept making the old medicine for several months more. A telex from Cutter to a distributor suggests one reason behind that decision, too: the company had several fixed-price contracts and believed that the old product would be cheaper to produce.
Nearly two decades later, the precise human toll of these marketing decisions is difficult, if not impossible, to document. Many patient records are now unavailable, and because an AIDS test was not developed until later in the epidemic, it is difficult to pinpoint when foreign hemophiliacs were infected with H.I.V. -- before Cutter began selling its safer medicine or afterward.
Artikel gaat verder:
https://archive.is/ygSMS
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/pfizer
Vioxx maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list
AN international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be "neutralised" or discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced.
Staff at US company Merck &Co emailed each other about the list of doctors - mainly researchers and academics - who had been negative about the drug Vioxx or Merck and a recommended course of action.
The email, which came out in the Federal Court in Melbourne yesterday as part of a class action against the drug company, included the words "neutralise", "neutralised" or "discredit" against some of the doctors' names.
It is also alleged the company used intimidation tactics against critical researchers, including dropping hints it would stop funding to institutions and claims it interfered with academic appointments.
"We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live," a Merck employee wrote, according to an email excerpt read to the court by Julian Burnside QC, acting for the plaintiff.
Merck & Co and its Australian subsidiary, Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, are being sued for compensation by more than 1000 Australians, who claim they suffered heart attacks or strokes as a result of Vioxx.
The drug was launched in 1999 and at its height of popularity was used by 80 million people worldwide because it did not cause stomach problems as did traditional anti-inflammatory drugs.
It was voluntarily withdrawn from sale in 2004 after concerns were raised that it caused heart attacks and strokes and a clinical trial testing these potential side affects was aborted for safety reasons.
Lead plaintiff Graeme Peterson, 58, claims the drug caused him to have a heart attack in 2003 after he took it for back pain and arthritis every day from May 2001.
Merck last year settled thousands of lawsuits in the US over the effects of Vioxx for $US4.85billion ($7.14 billion) but made no admission of guilt.
The company is fighting the class action in Australia.
Artikel van de Australian: https://web.archive.org/w(...)5272600-2702,00.html
Nog een artikel van CBS:
Merck Created Hit List to "Destroy," "Neutralize" or "Discredit" Dissenting Doctors
Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.
https://web.archive.org/w(...)-dissenting-doctors/
The Food and Drug Administration is under pressure from the Trump administration to approve drugs faster, but researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that nearly a third of those approved from 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues years after the medications were made widely available to patients.
Seventy-one of the 222 drugs approved in the first decade of the millennium were withdrawn, required a "black box" warning on side effects or warranted a safety announcement about new risks, Dr. Joseph Ross, an associate professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues reported in JAMA on Tuesday. The study included safety actions through Feb. 28.
"While the administration pushes for less regulation and faster approvals, those decisions have consequences," Ross says. The Yale researchers' previous studies concluded that the FDA approves drugs faster than its counterpart agency in Europe does and that the majority of pivotal trials in drug approvals involved fewer than 1,000 patients and lasted six months or less.
It took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for these safety concerns to come to light, the study found, and issues were more common among psychiatric drugs, biologic drugs, drugs that were granted "accelerated approval" and drugs that were approved near the regulatory deadline for approval.
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https://www.npr.org/secti(...)oval?t=1629822447233
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Producenten van covid-vaccins in een kwaad daglicht stellen met als doel te laten zien dat die vaccins toch echt slecht zijn. En covid is alleen maar bangmakerij!quote:Op woensdag 1 september 2021 09:01 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
De link met asbest/babypoeder en de laatste linkdumps van pcp ontgaat me volkomen eigenlijk.
Door de reactie van magnesium-rijke mineralen zoals pyroxeen en olivijn met water ontstaat eerst serpentijn, en wanneer dat vervolgens met CO2 reageert ontstaat er talk.quote:
Asbest is een mineraal en komt van nature vaak voor in de buurt van talklagen in de aarde. In mijnen waar talk wordt gewonnen, kan daarom ook asbest als mineraal zitten; de zuiverheid van de talk verschilt van plaats tot plaats.
In die eerste stap kan ook chrysotiel (witte asbest) ontstaan, een vorm van serpentijn.
Mooi spul trouwens, heb thuis een stuk liggen. Zal straks eens een foto maken
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Ik vraag me ook af hoe dat gaat, het begint natuurlijk klein met ziet een kleine correlatie tussen longkanker en asbest, maar op een gegeven moment slaat dat om in een soort structurele nalatendheid. Er zit dan in het hoofd van zo'n bedrijf zal wel los lopen, de data stapelt op maar ze beoordelen het nog net zo als bij de eerste kleine correlaties.
Nu kan ik het ook wel weer begrijpen, wij gebruiken op het werk handschoenen van die nitril dingen die zijn fijner dan latex, blijkbaar blijven er bij de productie van die handschoenen kankerverwekkende stoffen achter en nu moeten ze er uit. Maar het zijn wel fijnere handschoenen. Het bedrijf verkoopt ze nog gewoon en de correlatie en voorkomendheid is maar laag. Als gebruiker van die spullen wil je het liefst de dingen hetzelfde laten, onze reflex is het laten bij het status quo. Als bedrijf van een product blijf je al snel achter je product staan. Het is vaak wel erg kwalijk als het gebeurt. De intentie is lang niet altijd heel vervelend maar de uitkomsten wel.
Gelukkig worden controles en eisen aan producten wel steeds strenger.
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Bayer verkoopt met HIV besmette medicijnen en dan stel ik ze in een kwaad daglicht?? Alles wel goed daar in de bovenkamer?quote:
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Producenten van covid-vaccins in een kwaad daglicht stellen met als doel te laten zien dat die vaccins toch echt slecht zijn. En covid is alleen maar bangmakerij!
En Bayer maakt toch geen vaccins?
Nee, wel RoundUpquote:Op woensdag 1 september 2021 23:32 schreef Probably_on_pcp het volgende:
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Bayer verkoopt met HIV besmette medicijnen en dan stel ik ze in een kwaad daglicht?? Alles wel goed daar in de bovenkamer?
En Bayer maakt toch geen vaccins?
Die andere links die je toe hebt gevoegd wel.quote:
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Bayer verkoopt met HIV besmette medicijnen en dan stel ik ze in een kwaad daglicht?? Alles wel goed daar in de bovenkamer?
En Bayer maakt toch geen vaccins?
Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet
SV40 is a virus found in some species of monkey.
SV40 was discovered in 1960. Soon afterward, the virus was found in polio vaccine.
More than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine from 1955 to 1963 when a proportion of vaccine was contaminated with SV40; it has been estimated that 10–30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of vaccine.
SV40 virus has been found in certain types of cancer in humans, but it has not been determined that SV40 causes these cancers.
The majority of scientific evidence suggests that SV40-contaminated vaccine did not cause cancer; however, some research results are conflicting and more studies are needed.
Polio vaccines being used today do not contain SV40. All of the current evidence indicates that polio vaccines have been free of SV40 since 1963.
Additional Facts
In the 1950s, rhesus monkey kidney cells, which contain SV40 if the animal is infected, were used in preparing polio vaccines. Because SV40 was not discovered until 1960, no one was aware in the 1950s that polio vaccine could be contaminated.
SV40 was found in the injected form of the polio vaccine (IPV), not the kind given by mouth (OPV).
Not all doses of IPV were contaminated. It has been estimated that 10–30 million people actually received a vaccine that contained SV40.
Some evidence suggests that receipt of SV40-contaminated polio vaccine may increase risk of cancer. However, the majority of studies done in the U.S. and Europe which compare persons who received SV40-contaminated polio vaccine with those who did not have shown no causal relationship between receipt of SV40-contaminated polio vaccine and cancer.
https://web.archive.org/w(...)cancer_factsheet.htm
Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History
Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing
WASHINGTON – American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, the Justice Department announced today.
Pharmacia & Upjohn Company has agreed to plead guilty to a felony violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for misbranding Bextra with the intent to defraud or mislead. Bextra is an anti-inflammatory drug that Pfizer pulled from the market in 2005. Under the provisions of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, a company must specify the intended uses of a product in its new drug application to FDA. Once approved, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for so-called "off-label" uses – i.e., any use not specified in an application and approved by FDA. Pfizer promoted the sale of Bextra for several uses and dosages that the FDA specifically declined to approve due to safety concerns. The company will pay a criminal fine of $1.195 billion, the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the United States for any matter. Pharmacia & Upjohn will also forfeit $105 million, for a total criminal resolution of $1.3 billion.
In addition, Pfizer has agreed to pay $1 billion to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act that the company illegally promoted four drugs – Bextra; Geodon, an anti-psychotic drug; Zyvox, an antibiotic; and Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug – and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for uses that were not medically accepted indications and therefore not covered by those programs. The civil settlement also resolves allegations that Pfizer paid kickbacks to health care providers to induce them to prescribe these, as well as other, drugs. The federal share of the civil settlement is $668,514,830 and the state Medicaid share of the civil settlement is $331,485,170. This is the largest civil fraud settlement in history against a pharmaceutical company.
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https://www.justice.gov/o(...)ttlement-its-history
The pharmaceutical industry exerts a huge amount of influence on health policy. Some companies develop highly profitable drugs with public money, while others have been found to have covered up serious side effects.
The fight against Covid-19 is further fueling the greed of pharmaceutical companies. Does the industry’s influence threaten public health systems?
The industry has seen major changes in the last decade. Most of the world’s pharmaceuticals are produced by a handful of large corporations, so-called Big Pharma. They’re richer and more powerful than ever. In some cases, they can even call the shots on governmental health policies.
This documentary is the result of more than a year of research, and brings together patients, whistleblowers, lawyers, doctors and politicians, as well as representatives of the industry. Large laboratories are accused of concealing or downplaying research results to maintain their monopolies. Take the manufacturer Sanofi, whose epilepsy drug Depakine triggered a scandal throughout Europe. In the US, Johnson & Johnson has had to stand trial for driving millions of people into opioid addiction. And Novartis is one of several companies now facing huge fines over improper practices in the treatment of macular degeneration, an eye disease.
The pharmaceutical industry gets support from influential doctors. But only one-fifth of German doctors declare what they receive from drug companies. As the world battles the Coronavirus pandemic, this documentary also looks at the lobbying efforts of manufacturer Gilead, as it seeks approval for a promising drug developed largely with public money. Every company is vying to find the next miracle treatment that will help it succeed against the competition.
WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer 'used dirty tricks to avoid clinical trial payout'
Cables say drug giant hired investigators to find evidence of corruption on Nigerian attorney general to persuade him to drop legal action
The world's biggest pharmaceutical company hired investigators to unearth evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general in order to persuade him to drop legal action over a controversial drug trial involving children with meningitis, according to a leaked US embassy cable.
Pfizer was sued by the Nigerian state and federal authorities, who claimed that children were harmed by a new antibiotic, Trovan, during the trial, which took place in the middle of a meningitis epidemic of unprecedented scale in Kano in the north of Nigeria in 1996.
Last year, the company came to a tentative settlement with the Kano state government which was to cost it $75m.
But the cable suggests that the US drug giant did not want to pay out to settle the two cases – one civil and one criminal – brought by the Nigerian federal government.
The cable reports a meeting between Pfizer's country manager, Enrico Liggeri, and US officials at the Abuja embassy on 9 April 2009. It states: "According to Liggeri, Pfizer had hired investigators to uncover corruption links to federal attorney general Michael Aondoakaa to expose him and put pressure on him to drop the federal cases. He said Pfizer's investigators were passing this information to local media."
The cable, classified confidential by economic counsellor Robert Tansey, continues: "A series of damaging articles detailing Aondoakaa's 'alleged' corruption ties were published in February and March. Liggeri contended that Pfizer had much more damaging information on Aondoakaa and that Aondoakaa's cronies were pressuring him to drop the suit for fear of further negative articles."
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https://www.theguardian.c(...)ables-pfizer-nigeria
BNW / Israel geeft zwarte Joden stiekem een contraceptie vaccinatie
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Dat is de VS nu eenmaal, en dat zal de komende tijd niet veranderen.quote:
Dit komt door hun eigen stomme instelling om er niks aan te veranderen.
Tja leuk wel, als in de EU diezelfde zwarte pagina's te zien zijn. De EU staat toch voor transparantie? Je kan de VS wel de schuld van dit alles blijven geven maar de EU doet precies hetzelfdequote:
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Dat is de VS nu eenmaal, en dat zal de komende tijd niet veranderen.
Dit komt door hun eigen stomme instelling om er niks aan te veranderen.
I'm dulde meer op de manier hoe het hele ziekenhuis issue in de vs werkt .. je kan beter gewoon peige gaan, wnat begraven of cremeren is goedkoper dan de doktersrekening daar.quote:
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Tja leuk wel, als in de EU diezelfde zwarte pagina's te zien zijn. De EU staat toch voor transparantie? Je kan de VS wel de schuld van dit alles blijven geven maar de EU doet precies hetzelfde
Haha vriend! je hebt gedronken he?quote:Op maandag 6 maart 2023 23:19 schreef theguyver het volgende:
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I'm dulde meer op de manier hoe het hele ziekenhuis issue in de vs werkt .. je kan beter gewoon peige gaan, wnat begraven of cremeren is goedkoper dan de doktersrekening daar.
Mik nie uut.. Gaan morgen wel verder 
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Haha vriend! je hebt gedronken he?
Ik?
Nee.
Het ging me om dit Twitter bericht
Het betreft niet alleen de farmaceutische industrie maar het financiële plaatje van vrijwel elk bedrijf in de VS rijker worden alsmaar rijker en de gezondheidzorg in zijn algemeen is gewoon belabberd alles kost bakken en bakken met geld als je ook maar iets hebt.
Dood gaan is financieel beter voor een familie dan jezelf in de schulden te gaan werken voor bijvoorbeeld iets simpels als je blinde darm verwijderen.
Hier kost dat +-4000¤ in de VS 50.000$
Om gewoon even een random voorbeeld te noemen.