f.d.a. regulated commodities including but not limited to dietary supplements. for those of you that don't know the structure or framework of f.d.a., there are six back bones to f.d.a. here in maryland. they are known as sectors. each sent certificate responsible for regulating particular commodities. they are the center fer biologic research. the center for biologic. the center for tobacco products. the center for food safety. and the center for drugs evaluation and research. >> dietary supplements are regulated by the food safety and applied nutrition. however in my line of work, in the drug arena, at certain times which we'll talk about in a few moments here, those dietary supplements are under the purview of the center for drugs. the types of criminal investigation that is i see involving dietary supplements are twofold. we have tainted dietary supplements and supplement that is are associated with health fraud scams. these particular investigations that we do in these areas can have pot

and the the f.d.a. saying that's ok the bad news is the f.d.a. knows that because the company tested six fish. that's it this is not good enough for high school science project and the f.d.a. has to honest this is the best science available and it's also science done by the company itself the f.d.a. should have looked at the data they got from the company and said. go back do what the canadians are doing studying salmon do what the swedes are doing starting in salmon and he'd have had twenty years to work on this is this is a good as you can do we shouldn't approve it it's unbelievable really that people are kind of defer to this agency and say you know it's the end all be all if they've approved it then it must be safe i mean here you have michael taylor x. vice president monsanto working in this and this really high up cabinet position in the f.d.a. why do people have such an inherent trust in this in this agency. well i think it's all they know you know how you do it and trust in what people tell you you should trust to some extent and the the

the practices of the f.d.a. they can't meet congressionally mandated deadlines. they don't know how to do basic research on genetically modified fish. yeah people should have some more questions we we sue them to try to get them to do the right thing. thankfully we have independent organizations like yours trying to keep them hold their feet to the fires and certainly the government isn't doing it. let's talk about you know the whole phrase we are what we eat i mean you mentioned this earlier that we're kind of so ignorant about what we're even eating in this country i just feel like americans especially we're so far removed from the source of our food we have no idea what nuts look like and they're and they're organic form when you take them out of the earth i mean what is this really doing to us alternately because we really are what we become the nutrients that we're picking to consume and we have no idea where they come from we're getting more and more processed food and the unprocessed food we're eating gets shipped all the way from california to the east co

if the f.d.a.went upstairs, or the board of pharmacy went up there and saw 30 sales reps making phone calls, 100 calls a day, they'd wonder what was going on, and why are you so big when you're supposed to be a mom and pop specialty pharmacy, and you're not? >> pelley: that sales force sold methylprednisolone to a pain clinic in michigan, which treated george cary's wife and anita baxter's mother. lillian cary and karina baxter were among the first to die. we've pulled together pictures of about half of the 48 dead. the most recent fatality was last month. death often comes when the fungus reaches the brain. >> george cary: by the time the hospital determined that she had suffered a stroke, it was too late. >> anita baxter: same here. >> cary: she died five days later. >> pelley: lillian cary died before doctors figured out what was happening. so, while she was in the hospital, her husband george decided to do something about a nagging pain in his back. he went to the same clinic she had, and now t

and the the f.d.a. saying that's ok the bad news is the f.d.a. knows that because the company tested six fish. that's it this is not good enough for high school science project and the f.d.a. has to honest this is the best science available and it's also science done by the company itself the f.d.a. should have looked at the data it got from the company and said go back do what the canadians are doing a study in salmon do it this weeds are doing a study in salmon and he'd had twenty years to work on this and this is good as you can do we shouldn't approve it it's unbelievable really that people are kind of defer to this agency and say you know it's the end all be all if they've approved it then it must be safe i mean here you have michael taylor excise president monsanto working on this and this really high up cabinet position in the f.d.a. why do people have such an inherent trust in this in this agency. well i think it's all they know you know how to trust again what people tell you you should trust to some extent and the the more i study. the

the f.d.a.dverse event reporting system for dietary supplements. dietary supplements are common across america. vitamin pills, mineral pills bills pills, there are shops all over chicago and downstate yilg illinois selling these supplements and many people including myself take a vitamin each day, maybe it's good for me, maybe it isn't, i hope it's good, it's certainly not harmful. but there are thousands and thousands of dietary supplements for sale. they're not all made in the united states and they're not all made to the highest specifications. so we said to the food and drug administration we want you to collect information from american consumers if there's a problem. if there's a dietary supplement that's being sold and someone has an adverse event, in other words, a health event that could be serious, report it to the f.d.a. if we receive more than one, it's worth taking a look at to see if there's a pattern emerging and we should take something off the shelf. today the general accountabi

we asked the commissioner of the f.d.a., margaret hamburg, about that. so if a patient goes into a clinic and the doctor or the nurse pulls out a vial of something, that patient has no way to know whether that drug has been approved by the f.d.a. or not? >> well, i think that's right under the current system and what i think emerged in the meningitis outbreak was that many patients and their health care providers didn't realize that they, in fact, were using a compounded product. >> pelley: as commissioner of the f.d.a., then, you can't tell us sitting here now that every drug being used in the united states is safe and effective. >> no, i -- i really cannot. >> pelley: compounding pharmacies are supposed to make drugs for individuals by prescription, but n.e.c.c. shipped 17,000 vials of toxic steroid to 23 states. dr. hamburg now asking congress to return oversight of the compounding industry to the f.d.a. tonight, jim axelrod continues our investigation and finds that the trouble in the industry extends far beyond new england compounding center. >> rep

s that f.d.a. has found in dietary supplements include blood pressure lowering medication such as terasosin, luke diuretics such as bumetanides, designer steroids, and i just found out and again, learning every day, phenaton, used in seizures, all found in dietary supplements to date. and another type of crime that i get involved to in the drug arena is health fraud scams, the snake oilsman scams. let me read to you the definition of health fraud. it is the deceptive promotion advertisement or sale of products as being effective to diagnose, prevent, cure, treat, or mitigate disease, or to provide a beneficial effect on health but which have not been scientifically proven safe and effective for such purposes. and i think that's particularly where we get into the drug arena when a dietary supplement, regulated as a food product, tends to make statements that diagnose, prevent, cure, treat, or mitigate disease. examples that we see in this arena are treatment statements involving chronic, serious dis

jon lapook to tell us what we need to know. >> reporter: the f.d.a. review add study from last year finding that patients treated with azithromycin, commonly sold as a z-pak were two and a half times more likely to die from cardiovascular causes than patients receiving another antibiotic, amoxicillin. dr. wayne ray was one of the study authors. >> we learned that azithromycin, previously thought to be pretty neutral from the cardiovascular perspective does seem to have cardiovascular risks so with that information doctors can usema the procedures they already do to prescribe it more safely. >> reporter: the f.d.a. said the antibiotic may contribute to a fatal irregular heart beat especially patients with known cardiac conditions. other antibiotics-- for example lev quinn-- have also been linked to irregular rhythms. the study authors estimated 47 additional cardiovascular deaths may occur for every one million courses of azithromycin. with so many prescriptions of azithromycin written last year the f.d.a. felt a warning was warranted. >> pelley: well,

bottle of soda but don't worry the dairy industry is on top of it which is why they're lobbying the f.d.a. to approve a low calorie milk option featuring none other than my favorite artificial sweetener aspartame yep the controversial chemical that will sweeten milk in a way that will make it even more appealing to kids in the industry the move would promote more healthful eating and reduce childhood obesity but wait is that really the case a recent brazilian university's study shows aspartame actually causes greater weight gain and regular sugar because the intake of empty calories in your body makes you crave more food. and here's the real kicker dairy corporations want to make this change without you even knowing it which is why they're currently petitioning the f.d.a. to alter the classification of milk all of course to avoid having to give this new chemical cocktail name other than the established milk brand so while milk may seem wholesome while the industry might claim to have your best interests at heart pretty obvious that this is not the case the milk industry is only concerned

or consumers and then michael taylor became months and as vice president and now he's back at the f.d.a. as u.s. food safety czar and the justification for not regulating jimbo's was based on a sentence in the policy that was entirely false claiming that the agency wasn't aware of information showing that g m o's were different when in fact their own scientists uniformly agreed that g m o's were dangerous and needed testing this was the first level of deception and the they've been layering the deception since then didn't feed the world lower the use of agricultural chemicals and now in california they're layering deception on prop thirty seven. deception all right so what are we learning so far we're learning that monsanto has a hell of a lot of influence b. scientists from both sides of the aisle agree that some are dangerous and require testing and we're learning that the whole campaign against labeling these foods is based entirely on falsehoods yet a majority of americans want their food to be labeled before they purchase it and of course the reason it doesn't get labeled is due to

it doesn't but here's the real kicker the f.d.a. doesn't require ammonia treatment to be labeled on meat instead it's innocuously called a processing agent on the label don't worry the u.s.d.a. has validated it safety based on the company's word alone having conducted any independent tests of their own what a shock but say might not eat red meat what about chicken aside from the array of hormones being pumped into chickens do you know that paltry is also being fed to caffeine the active ingredient in tylenol and benadryl banned antibiotics and even arsenic this is all revealed when scientists analyze chicken feathers that carry an imprint similar to a piece of human hair one study in the environmental science and technology journal found that chickens are routinely being fed illegal antibiotics that breed super bugs and they're legal for good reason because antibiotic resistant infections kill more americans every year than aids corney infectious diseases society of america. and when this was exposed the industry claimed that benadr

a genetically modified fish with spare parts is engines away from our food supply chain the f.d.a. is giving general electric the go ahead on an application that's been pending now for two years the so-called frankenfish anyway well it's the biotech industries genetically engineered fish that grows twice that of the of the normal rate of a real fish that means it goes into the consumer market faster and at higher rates this lab animal is loaded with questions that science just can't answer the biggest one how does this affect the health of somebody who eats it here's what we do know the lab test of only six of these fish showed an elevated level of the growth hormone i g h one which have been linked to breast colon and prostate cancer with the f.d.a. is approval this would be the first genetically modified animal allowed in the u.s. for consumption this is important because this fish it sets the regulatory precedent for every g.m.o. animal after it consumer watchdog groups say not so fast a concern that she shares with them this modified fish could escape into the wild survive and

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was exempt from f.d.a. oversight because it was a so-called compounding pharmacy, limited by law to making specialty drugs for individuals-- one prescription at a time. so why had it shipped 17,000 vials of toxic steroid? this man was a salesman for n.e.c.c.. he told us the company sent drugs nationwide to 3,000 hospitals and clinics. the necessary prescriptions, he said, were often fraudulent. clinics provided pages of names. any names. >> bart simpson, homer simpson. those ones did raise red flags and we called our client back and said "give us different names" and follow up names would be john doe, jane doe, bill doe, jane smith, bill smith, et cetera. >> pelley: it was obvious what was going on, it was obvious to them it wasn't above board. >> right. if you're in your position, if you're a buyer and your job is to save money and you're going to get a brand name for $40 and we offer you a $20 vial for the same drug, same size, same everything, what are you going to do? you're going to get two for the pri

at the f.d.a. back in one hundred ninety two when the general policy was created was bugged out his former attorney and later my sandoz vice president and now the u.s. food safety czar back at the f.d.a. even the u.s. secretary of agriculture don't sack the biotech governor of the year when he was the iowa governor and gave auxerre to an award in year two thousand so we have a situation where there's key people in the obama administration who are basically month sentiment or have been receiving financial support so this is why we are in favor of a market campaign to stop g.m. goes where people avoid g m o's because they're actually dangerous for health and then we'll see the companies eliminate them even if the government still works marching in lockstep with the biotech industry so obviously they're very influential when it comes to both the biotech industry as well as possibly a lawmaker that you're saying now is some democrats are simply claiming that they didn't know anything about this particu

and f.d.a.n the plastic bottles, soup cans, all that have stuff is not good for us and affects us, so i want people to be careful about this. what i recommend to a lot of people start drinking from the glass bottles, not plastic. look for bpa-free products and make sure that, you know, start using stainless steel and glass more than plastic. >> jamie: quickly, we talked about it affecting children, does it affect adults. >> absolutely. a lot of studies talk about reproductive systems, fertility, and kids f.d.a. taken it out. bottles, et cetera not approved for kids anymore and hopefully for adults also, we've got to be aware of it. >> definitely got our attention on that. will i see you tomorrow morning with sunday house call with dr. siegel. >> yes, we have a lot. >> jamie: 10:30 a.m. and thank you for joining us today i'm jamie colby. >> kelly: i'm kelly wright. the journal editorial report is coming up next. >> jamie: and don't forget the special coming up on fox. >> kelly: three hours tomorr

get away with this well they just say that it's flavored either naturally or artificially and the f.d.a. puts the burden and tiredly on you you should know what you're eating despite the slick and misleading propaganda by these food companies on their labels all right so if you're not up by now running for the hills while i go over yet another. meat and no i'm not talking about horse meat i'm talking about how a majority of processed meat in this country is trade with ammonia yes a company called beef products incorporated had a genius idea of how to radek at the coal epidemic inject beef with ammonia you know the same chemical that's poured all over public restroom floors to kill bacteria that stuff is more than likely to end up in your hamburger and your kids' school lunch and sadly while it claims to kill it call life it doesn't but here's the real kicker the f.d.a. doesn't require ammonia treatment to be labeled on meat instead it's innocuously called a processing agent on the label don't worry the u.s.d.a. has validated its safety based on the company's were. alone having conducted

as commissioner of the f.d.a., then, you can't tell us that every drug being used in the united statesve. >> no, i... i really cannot. >> o'donnell: sheryl sandberg runs the business side of the social media giant facebook. she's one of the most powerful women in the world, and she has just written a book about women in the work force. it may be the most debated work published all year. >> i am not saying that everyone has the resources or opportunities i have. but i am saying we need to help women own the power they have, learn how to negotiate for raises, get the pay they deserve. >> o'donnell: you know, sheryl people are going to say, "oh she's got a charmed life, she went to harvard, she's a billionaire, and she's telling me what i should do." >> logan: when pope benedict xvi came to the sagrada famÍlia two years ago, he consecrated the church as a basilica. not since 1883, when it was first envisioned by anthony

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our f.d.a. regulation is no more stringent than the european equivalent of the f.d.a. but the problem we have is the compliance process. we're slow, we're bureaucratic, we inflict massive cost and delay so let's separate those two issues. let's all agree on high standards but let's get it done better. let's get it done faster. let's get it done with less bureaucracy. and, you know, and that's going to make us more competitive. >> rose: number six, enact a multiyear program to improve logistical communications and energy infrastructure, prioritizing those projects most important for reducing the cost of doing business and promoting innovation. >> we have this copious evidence that our infrastructure is no longer world class. we've let it deteriorate and we have trouble mounting a long-term strategy to deal with that. we may need new sources of financing. we may need private/public partnerships. there's some infrastructure bank ideas. lots of good ideas here. we all agree with this. >> rose: even if we agree on what we should do, we don't agree on how to do it. >> exactl

a "60 minutes" investigation finds high-risk drugs sold without f.d.a. then, you can't tell us sitting here now that every drug being used in the united states is safe and effective. >> no, i -- i really cannot. >> pelley: and a new generation of americans takes up the joys and challenges of a 2,000-year- old faith. >> personally i was very much reluctant to follow the call because of celibacy. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from vatican city. >> pelley: good evening, all roads lead to rome, and the road to the papacy starts here. first thing tomorrow the cardinals who will choose the next pope will gather at st. peter's basilica behind me to celebrate mass together. then, in the afternoon, they will march to the sistine chapel lock the doors, and begin the voting known as the conclave. we expect they will cast their first vote for the new spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion catholics, including more than 66 million in the united states. today the cardinals held the last in a series

shares rebounded eight and a half percent after a big drop yesterday after the f.d.a. disclosed its probe. at least three investment all five of the most actively traded exchange traded products were higher. even with the small gains in the broad market, the s&p 500 short term volatility note was also higher, gaining 1.5% and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: it's begun. taxes have gone up and government spending growth will come down. while painful, our friday market monitor thinks the sequester's spending cuts will ultimately be a positive for the u.s. economy. randall eley is president of the edgar lomax company. he's in washington where the sequester is hitting here tonight. how about the debt debate now, randall? does it change your investment horizon if we're talking about things that are happening in the very short-term future? >> no. in fact, i think in the long run, it's good for our investors who need to take a long-term perspective on investment. so much of investment action that's been taken in the last year has been based on expecting the government,

congress exempted them from f.d.a. oversight because, by law, they're allowed to make custom drugs just one patient at a time. but connolly says, over a few years, n.e.c.c. went national. he told us that quantities of drugs increased by a factor of 1,000. >> we became a manufacturer overnight. so we were basically trying to have the best of both worlds trying to manufacture without the oversight of a manufacturer. and there was-- we all got... >> pelley: a month before the first steroid death, connolly says he warned his supervisor. >> something's going to happen. something's going to get missed and we're going to get shut down. >> pelley: what did you mean by that? >> that we were going to hurt a patient. we were just thinking "hurt a patient." we weren't compounding anymore we were manufacturing. >> pelley: when you went to your supervisor and told him that, he said what? >> that's verbatim. he shrugged. that was his response for a lot of our questions or comments or concerns was a shrug. >> pelley: meaning? >> "just

a "60 minutes" investigation has discovered how a pharmacy not supervised by the f.d.a.ting patients. >> i've been in the hospital seven times, a total of 75 days. i've missed thanksgiving and christmas and my son's birthday.

floor dated areas and there are many more adverse effects than just those not to mention that the f.d.a. admits that florida is a drug not a nutrient multiple ethical codes are being violated here by forcing us to ingest this drug look up. call it like it is water fluoridation has nothing to do with said benefits think about it wrongly getting our fair share of this substance through the dentist and the toothpaste we use every day and little processed foods we're already eating and drinking on a daily basis we get more than enough so the argument that we need to ingest the substance as well is baseless look eyes and matter what you think about fluoride the real issue here is having a choice no chemical matter what its alleged benefits are should be forced upon the public without their consent let's not forget as long as corporations are involved our best interest isn't really the priority so maybe we should be looking at water fluoridation as a money making scam the tale that's all too familiar governments and industry colluding to save money instead of saving lives. sick looks like you