FDA: Ban on quack remedies

FDA Proposes to Ban Cephalosporins from Livestock Feed

The recent ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on certain uses of cephalosporin antibiotics in food animals 1 has not won the agency much favor. Industry groups blasted the rule for intruding on veterinary practice, while food safety advocates said it was at best a minor step toward addressing broader problems with antibiotic resistance. In issuing the rule on 6 January 2012, the...

Rough Notes on Remedies

Notes on Some Remedies

investigate its toxicity to the rat. They noted that animals dying after sulphaguanidine showed goitres which on microscopical section were found to be due to hyperplasia and were practically free from colloid. The same effect was produced more or less by other sulpha drugs such as sulphadiazine and sulphapyridine, and Richter and Clisby (1942) showed that other sulphur compounds, notably thiou...

Rough Notes on Remedies

The quack doctor of Serpukhov.