FDA: Drug Companies Faked Thousands of Drug Documents
According to the Food and Drug Administration, a major drug research contractor has been found faking documents and manipulating samples. The firm, Cetero Research, has tested medicines for major drug companies that are now being forced to reevaluate their products in response to warnings issued by US regulators. The news may be from 2010, but is an example of pharma corruption nonetheless.
Absentee Lab Technicians, Fixed Studies
North Carolina-based Cetero performs early-phase clinical research and bioanalytics for many pharmaceutical companies, which use the results to receive FDA approval for drugs. Exactly which companies used Cetero’s services for FDA drug approval remains unclear, though such companies are being asked by the FDA to come forward.
A series of investigations—two 2010 inspections, an internal company investigation, and a third-party audit—uncovered “significant instances of misconduct and violations” at Houston’s Cetero facility. The FDA adds that “the pattern of misconduct was serious enough to raise concerns about the integrity of the data Cetero generated” between April 2005 and June 2010.
In those five years, laboratory personnel supposedly busy conducting studies were revealed in the investigations as not even being present in the Cetero facilities—in 1,900 instances. The FDA also suspects that Cetero “fixed” studies to skew outcomes or failed to mention others in their reports.
The regulators say that the investigation’s scope is “too narrow to identify and adequately address the root cause of these systemic failures.”
Root cause? Maybe greed is a good place to start.
Widespread Fraud in Big Pharma
Greed seems to be a common denominator between Cetero and Roche and Genentech, a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company and its US affiliate, which were probed by the European Medicines Agency and found to have failed to submit 80,000 reports of products marketed in the US that left 15,161 patients dead. Your doctor could be one of the may paid to falsify data to get published.
Even the Mayo Clinic has stated that the last 10 years of cancer research is useless due to widespread fraud.
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Not surprised one bit. While a still small part of me clings to the good of medical research, the vast majority of research and endeavors of the pharmaceutical industry is designed with utter disregard for the health and wellness of people and the planet. Thank you for posting so we concerned individuals can be proactive and make our voices heard.
Cancer industry is a bottomless pit .c
so now we need a name n shame effort.
and the products that they lied about to be made public asap.
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Davo Its all about greed, these co.'s don't care about anyones health, its all about the money! Worthless vaccines that are bad for your health,drugs that mask symptoms and don't cure anything but there being sold and billions are being made! Many people die every year from drugs that are prescribed. Greed should be a crime, these are crimes against humanity! I will never take a long term prescribed drug of any kind nor will I ever take a flu shot or any other type of vaccination! The whole system is out of control, look at it ,the financial system, the government is way too big,making more laws, telling the people whats good for us,a small government works the best,we are supposed to learn from history so why don't we? People wake up or die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What does this mean for the volunteers in the Cetero studies?
Meet the criminals right under our noses. I do believe that this is a group that we need to look more into. They bribe doctors into using their prescribed medications that are highly addictive to patients, without regard for the patients safety.