Fwd: medische vermarkting

[Henk Vreekamp]

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Iets voor de fervente voorstanders die zich ook nog "sociaal-liberaal" noemen.
hv,u
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>Date:         Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:13:05 -0400
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>From: Michael Ravnitzky <mikerav at MINDSPRING.COM>
>Subject: [IRE-L] Flu Vaccine Problems Nothing New
>Comments: To: foi-l at listserv.syr.edu
>To: IRE-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU
>
>FLU VACCINE PROBLEMS NOTHING NEW
>
>Three years ago, I posted this item on the FOI-L and IRE-L listservs which
>described some difficulties in obtaining important information on flu
>vaccine manufacturing and distribution problems, clearly of public
>importance and concern.
>
>While the FDA, the CDC and the Public Health Service eventually released
>several hundred pages of documents, it was only after putting up tremendous
>resistance over several years!
>
>If in light of current events, you want to get copies of the material that
>was eventually released, you can contact the offices identified below.
>
>Federal agencies, the documents suggest, knew of systematic problems with
>the flu vaccine manufacturing and distribution system.  However, they
>generally failed to adequately convey those concerns outside of a narrow
>sector of the public health community.
>
>Michael Ravnitzky
>mikerav at mindspring.com
>
>=================================
>=================================
>
>FROM DECEMBER 2001
>
>X-Originating-IP: 208.205.144.132
>Message-ID:  <Springmail.105.1009462443.0.38140500 at www.springmail.com>
>Date:         Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:14:03 -0500
>Reply-To:     mikerav at MINDSPRING.COM
>Sender:       State and Local Freedom of Information Issues
>               <FOI-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>From:         Michael Ravnitzky <mikerav at MINDSPRING.COM>
>Subject:      Flawed Flu Vaccine Manufacturing
>X-To:         ire-l at po.missouri.edu
>
>
>DOCUMENTS ON FLAWED FLU VACCINE MANUFACTURE
>by Michael Ravnitzky , mikerav at mindspring.com
>
>The FDA and the Public Health Service have somehow
>determined that there is no public interrest in documents
>describing errors in flu vaccine manufacturing for the 2000-2001
>flu season.  As you may recall, there were vaccine manufacturing
>errors which led to a shortage of flu vaccine and a
>recommendation that the vaccine only be administered in the
>most needy cases.  At the time, government web sites neglected
>to describe the precise reason why there was a severe shortage
>of flu vaccine in 2000-2001.
>
>In November 2000, I requested documents from the Centers for
>Disease Control (part of the Public Health Service) and the Food
>& Drug Administration as specified below.
>
>- A copy of each briefing given by CDC to the Advisory Committee
>on Immunization Practices (ACIP) about the current situation
>regarding the Influenza vaccine supply, between May 1, 2000 and
>the present;
>
>-  A copy of all internal memos, emails and other records at CDC
>relating to difficulties in developing sufficient quantities of the
>influenza vaccine during the present flu season;
>
>- A copy of all correspondence and email TO or FROM the CDC
>and Aventis-Pasteur Inc., Medeva Pharma Ltd. and Wyeth
>Laboratories, Inc. concerning difficulties in manufacturing
>sufficient quantities of the influenza vaccine for this flu season.
>
>-  A copy of any and all correspondence (including emails)
>between the FDA and the PHS/CDC concerning difficulties in
>manufacturing sufficient quantities of the influenza vaccine for
>this flu season.
>
>In my request, I asked for expedited handling because I
>represented a member of a national news organization and
>because it involved actual or alleged governmental activities and
>because it was a subject of great interest and significance to the
>public health.
>
>The expedited handling request was flatly denied by both Public
>Health Service (CDC) and FDA, who wrote that the matter of flu
>vaccine shortage was not a matter of great public concern.
>Moreover, they said that it would take a while to process the
>request because they had a large number of pending requests.
>Further checking verified that most of these pending requests
>were in fact commercial requests from private pharmaceutical
>companies.
>
>The CDC and the Public Health Service refused to place the
>request into the "news media" fee category without providing a
>reason why they did not consider this a news media request,
>despite the fact that the request was sent by a fulltime employee
>of a national news organization, on letterhead of that
>organization, on behalf of that organization, and the letter
>explained that the resulting records would be used for news
>publication.  Nearly a year later, the matter is still on appeal!
>
>Over the past 13 months, only a small one-inch thick packet of
>material has been provided by FDA and CDC/PHS, only a tiny
>fraction of the records available.
>
>If you wish to obtain records on the flu vaccine situation, you can
>write to PHS, CDC and the FDA.
>
>Public Health Service
>Darlene Christian
>FOIA Officer
>Room 17A46
>5600 Fishers Lane
>Rockville, MD 20857
>telephone number: 301 443-5252
>fax number: 301 443-0925
>
>CDC/ATSDR
>Attn:  Freedom of Information Act Office, MS-D54
>1600 Clifton Road N.E.
>Atlanta, GA  30333
>Phone:  404-639-7270
>Fax:  404-639-7395
>
>Food and Drug Administration
>Betty B. Dorsey
>Director, FOI Staff
>5600 Fishers Lane - HFI-30
>Rockville, MD 20857
>telephone number: 301 827-6567
>fax number: 301 443-1726
>
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