The Pharmaceutical Industry

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FDA does not have something equivalent to the NTSB or NTHSA to perform technical analysis. As has been proven repeatedly, FDA discovered threats to human life even get diminishes, quashed, or downplayed due to FDA politics and their association with big Pharma.

Not that a separate investigation unit by itself would fix the problem. The NTSB has a 30 year criticism of the FAA for its 'dead body' attitude. FAA will not fix things until someone dies. Even Fox News is now reporting how corrupt the FAA oversight has been.

We also have a separate agency to analyze vehicles failures and deaths. Not that it stopped 37 Toyota deaths. But it has eliminated many such failures by reporting the public - not to some auto industry oversight board.

FDA desperately needs its entire investigation board be spun off and separate from the FDA management. Big pharma has massive profits, gets much if not most of it basic research paid for by government, and has a history of keeping prices high by consolidating and by getting government protection. The most recent and perfect exact is George Jr's Medicaid prescription law that protected a 40% higher profit for drugs in America.

FDA needs to have all investigations separate and reported publicly. The FDA has a long history of protecting big Pharma – especially the cash cow drugs - at the expense of the public. FDA tends to backtrack only when reports are leaked. Too many news investigations have exposed this cozy relationship to be deniable. The reason for separate investigation agencies in other industries has long been understood.