FDA stops + searches busload of Seniors returning from Canada for meds

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A senior Food and Drug Administration official said Wednesday that it was unfortunate his agency stopped and inspected a busload of seniors returning from a medicine-buying trip to Canada.

"This is not consistent with our current practice," said John Taylor, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs. "I would not expect it to happen again."

The FDA says it cannot guarantee the safety of medications purchased in Canada and has been increasing pressure on state and local programs that help people buy the lower-cost prescription drugs there .

The bus-stopping incident occurred last October but wasn't made public until Wednesday, when Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., wrote to the FDA to complain about it. Dayton, a millionaire, donates his entire Senate salary to pay for the bus trips from Minnesota, allowing seniors to take advantage of the much lower drug prices in Canada.

A Dayton spokeswoman, Chris Lisi, said the senator only recently became aware of the incident.

Dayton wrote that the inspection caused stress for the elderly travelers.

"Is it the beginning of a new practice of harassment and intimidation against elderly citizens who are traveling themselves to Canada to make their prescription drug purchases?" he asked.

Taylor said it was not.

"This does not signal a change in policy," he said. "It was an unusual event."

Taylor said the inspection was requested by the U.S. Customs Service, when the bus made its way back across the border. Although importing drugs is technically illegal, the FDA allows people to purchase drugs in Canada for their personal use.

After a "cursory review," Taylor said, the FDA agents determined that the drugs could be imported and no drugs were seized.

"We have limited inspection resources," Taylor said. "Our focus is largely on entities that facilitate purchases," such as pharmacies.

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I can just imagine a bus load of seniors being scared to death by FDA agents! WHERE'S THE DOPE YOU OLD BAG ??????

8(
 
What a crock of shit!

It's not like the old people are getting high on these drugs, they are taking them to ease suffering! No no no says uncle sam, you MUST suffer if you dont pay ME!!!

Fuck that!

Fuck the FDA, Fuck the DEA, and Fuck the FCC!!!
 
I can imagine the sniffing dogs, wagging their tails and barking
at the sight of a bus full of old bones.
 
So our government is seriously fucked up - what's new? Nobody will ever do anything about it.
 
It doesn't seem all that far fetched that the FDA or DEA would stop a bus full of people coming into the US from Canada.

It seems as though we've run the gamut- everything from "GIVE ME THE DOPE YOU OLD BAG OR YOU'RE DEAD. POW!" to "drug sniffing man eating dogs" to "FUCK AMERICA!". :D

The responses in this thread are like a parody of bluelight, a caricature.

I don't see the big deal, unless they were searched due to some incident involving the (D) Senator that funds the bus trips. If the (R)'s were fucking with him- it'd be an issue. :)
 
Now THAT is pathetic. Can't guarantee the safety of drugs from Canada. Can you say "in the U.S. Pharm. cos. pocket". Not only are they as good (if not better) than U.S. drugs, we don't allow the companies to rape us. Brainwashing tactics. Put fear into people for no reason other than personal gain.


The FDA says it cannot guarantee the safety of medications purchased in Canada and has been increasing pressure on state and local programs that help people buy the lower-cost prescription drugs there

The FDA cannot guarantee the safety of U.S. drugs. What a bunch of losers.
 
yea and i dont like that whole FUCK AMERICA mentallity. Sure our goverment is evil, but our people are from around the globe. fuck america and you fuck yourself. my rangeant.
 
If you don't like America then fucking move to mexico and stop your bitching...yea, the government is lame but its still better then 99% of the world. After Holland....
 
why the uproar over a group of seniors getting searched? The searches are supposedly random (bullshit), and their has never been any crying when Ive gotten searched going over a border. And hell I doubt they were taken to a dimly lit room and beaten for info (never happened to me either). Im sure the customs officers were atleast as polite to them as they've been to me.
 
Maybe this will convince these seniors to vote for Kerry this election?
 
i heard someone mention on the radio that a group of seniour citizens needed to put together a trip just to get busted.. looks like now they wont have to.
 
Psilo707 said:
Fuck America.

Let the white man go back where he came from. He can drop the dis-gruntled negro's off on his way. 8)

/sarcasm

Since when was the FDA an enforcement agency? Shouldn't that be the DEA, and ATF's job?
 
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