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Did you know that the FDA has limited power to recall dangerous drugs? That’s not good, and something needs to be done about it. Perhaps the time is now.
“[S]purred by questions about Johnson & Johnson’s voluntary recall of millions of bottles of children’s medicine this spring, a House committee chairman has introduced legislation to give federal regulators the authority to recall drugs that pose health threats,” CQ Today (7/16, Ethridge) reports. House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) said Thursday that the bill would give the FDA “the authority to order a recall when a drug has been adulterated or misbranded, or when exposure to the drug would cause serious health consequences or death to humans and animals.”
Currently, the FDA can only ask companies to recall their drugs, although it “has the authority to mandate recalls of some products it regulates.” This legislation is desperately needed, and has the potential to save lives and keep people from being harmed by defective and dangerous drugs.
Please call your legislators and support this bill.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.
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