u/jello_88

My husband went for impressions for immediates on 6/29. There was no impression. They used a lighted wand thing to sort of take pictures of his teeth. How does that work for impressions? Extractions will be a week from Monday 7/20. Is that some new technology or a cheaper way of doing it. I was there and it didn't ring a bell in my head that there was no actual impression until 4 days ago. Can anyone explain?

Not just the country of origin for the manufacturer but also labeling for the API source.

At the FDA, the Trump administration has made staff cuts across the entire agency, including the support staff for the facility inspection programs and the lab staff that tests samples from batches of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), the components that generate drugs’ impacts on disease. The cuts come against a background of long-term inadequate staffing at that agency. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported that the FDA’s volume of inspections was not sufficient even before the new Trump administration and had not been since 2018. The inspection cuts will particularly affect the agency’s ability to regulate the quality of generic drugs, which constitute 90% of the drugs dispensed in the United States. With staffing and funding limited, fewer inspections will happen in places like China and India, where production of APIs for generic drugs is concentrated and thereby risks harming American patients.

This saves time and keeps us from having to read what MAY not concern us. However, you are free to read if you want to.

I was just looking at a label for Mush overnight oats. There is so much info on the label, but we know nothing about what is in our medication. This is nuts!

Food and Drug Administration oversees both but requires all the info for food.

I'll bet that's due to consumer demand over the years.

Something else I noticed on a protein bar I eat. There are suddenly peanuts in them. Whole peanuts. The package looks exactly the same but the ingredients are different. Yet we don't get to know what's in our meds because it's a trade secret. What??

I'm not allergic to peanuts but many people are just as they are allergic to dyes or certain chemicals.

Maybe something to include in an email or letter to your congressperson.

Can you imagine buying any processed food without being able to know what is in it. Even cosmetics have to list ingredients on the label. This is bass ackwards.

Edit: typo