The FDA Follies

This is the story of how the Food and Drug Administration failed in its mission to protect the national health during the years of the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Undeterred by the FDA's notorious secretiveness and its penchant for treating critics as pariahs, the novelist and investigative journalist Herbert Burkholz has unearthed a wealth of damning information about the FDA. The book shows how a decade of indifference turned this vital agency responsible for ensuring the safety of our food and drugs into a partner with industry - and the consumer's worst friend.