| Coleah 2006-10-18, 4:34 pm |
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"Jan Drew" <jdrew1374@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:KPtZg.887$T_1.547@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> http://www.newstarget.com/z020783.html
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> NewsTarget.com printable article
> Originally published October 17 2006
> Former FDA commissioner Crawford to plead guilty after charged with lying
> about conflicts of interest
> (NewsTarget) Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Lester
> Crawford is set to plead guilty today to charges of filing false financial
> disclosure forms and conflicts of interest, according to court papers
> filed yesterday by the Justice Department.
> The government charges that Crawford and his wife owned stock in several
> companies that fell under FDA regulation, and failed to fully disclose
> that information as required by federal law. The court papers also charge
> that Crawford assured federal ethics officers that he and his wife had
> sold stock in those companies, when they had not.
>
> Crawford's attorney, Barbara Van Gelder, said that under a plea agreement,
> her client would not dispute the government's charges, and would likely
> face fines and a possible prison term of up to two years.
>
> "At the end of the day, he owned these stocks and he will admit he owned
> them while he was at the FDA and he will take responsibility for that,"
> Van Gelder said.
>
> The Justice Department found that Crawford and his wife owned stock in
> Pepsico Inc., Sysco Corp., Kimberly-Clark Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and
> other companies regulated by the FDA. At one point, Crawford -- who owned
> at least $140,000 of stock in soda maker Pepsico and food distributor
> Sysco -- acted as chairman of an FDA panel charged with studying the
> obesity problem. Crawford's decision on that panel would have affected
> both companies.
What specific decisions WERE actually made
while he was on that panel?
How did any decision(s) benefit the companies in question?
> The court papers also charge that Crawford did not disclose his income
> from exercising stock options in agricultural biotechnology company Embrex
> Inc., for which he had been a member of the board of directors.
Yup! Fire the CPA......
> Crawford -- a food safety expert and veterinarian -- unexpectedly resigned
> from his position as head of the FDA in September 2005 without giving
> reason. He'd officially held the position for two months, though he had
> been acting head of the agency for more than a year.
Who needs that kind of hassle? When it's all done,
he needs to buy an island in the Pacific and live
happily ever after. (Let some other 'expert' get
raked over the political coals....)
> FDA critic Mike Adams, author of "Grocery Warning," calls the FDA a
> "criminal organization" and claims it puts pharmaceutical and food
> industry profits ahead of public safety. Adams called the charges against
> Crawford "yet another serious blow to the illusion of FDA credibility.
>
> "Crawford's guilty plea now establishes as indisputable fact what myself
> and other FDA critics have been saying for years: The agency is headed by
> white-collar criminals who deliberately make regulatory decisions that are
> in the best interests of drug companies and junk food giants, rather than
> protecting the health of the public," Adams said.
Junk Food Giants? Like the Pepsico Corporation?
I think Mr. Adams is a hyperactive 'extremist'.
Check out the evil 'junk food' Pepsico Divisions......
Quaker products:
a.. Quaker Oatmeal
a.. Quaker Instant Oatmeal
a.. Quaker Oatmeal Breakfast Squares
a.. Cap'n Crunch cereal
a.. Life cereal
a.. Quaker Oatmeal Brown Sugar Bliss
a.. Quaker Oatmeal Honey Nut Heaven
a.. Quaker 100% Natural cereal
a.. Quaker Squares cereal
a.. Quisp cereal
a.. King Vitaman cereal
a.. Quaker Oh's! Cereal
a.. Mother's cereal
a.. Quaker grits
a.. Quaker Oatmeal-to-Go
a.. Aunt Jemima mixes & syrups
a.. Quaker rice cakes
a.. Quaker rice snacks (Quakes)
a.. Quaker Chewy granola bars
a.. Quaker Dipps granola bars
a.. Rice-A-Roni side dishes
a.. Pasta Roni side dishes
a.. Near East side dishes
a.. Puffed Wheat
a.. Harvest Crunch cereal
a.. Quaker Baking Mixes
a.. Spudz snacks
a.. Crisp'ums baked crisps
a.. Quaker Fruit & Oatmeal bars
a.. Quaker Fruit & Oatmeal Bites
a.. Quaker Fruit and Oatmeal Toastables
a.. Quaker Soy Crisps
a.. Quaker Bakeries
Tropicana products:
a.. Tropicana Pure Premium juices
a.. Tropicana Twister juice drinks
a.. Tropicana Smoothies
a.. Tropicana Pure Tropics juices
a.. Dole juices (License)
a.. Tropicana 100 juices
Gatorade products:
a.. Gatorade Thirst Quencher
a.. Gatorade Frost Thirst Quencher
a.. Gatorade Ice Thirst Quencher
a.. Gatorade Xtremo Thirst Quencher
a.. Gatorade X-Factor Thirst Quencher
a.. Gatorade Fierce Thirst Quencher
a.. Propel Fitness Water
Pepsi-Cola products:
a.. Pepsi-Cola
a.. Caffeine Free Pepsi
a.. Diet Pepsi
a.. Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi
a.. Pepsi Twist (regular & diet)
a.. Wild Cherry Pepsi
a.. Pepsi Blue
a.. Pepsi ONE
a.. Pepsi Vanilla
a.. Diet Mountain Dew
a.. Mountain Dew Code Red
a.. Diet Mountain Dew Code Red
a.. Mountain Dew LiveWire
a.. Mountain Dew Blueshock
a.. Mountain Dew AMP energy drink
a.. Mug
a.. Sierra Mist (Regular & Diet)
a.. Slice
a.. Lipton Brisk (Partnership)
a.. Lipton Iced Tea(Partnership)
a.. Dole juices and juice drinks (License)
a.. FruitWorks juice drinks
a.. Aquafina purified drinking water
a.. Frappuccino ready-to-drink coffee (Partnership)
a.. Starbucks DoubleShot (Partnership)
a.. SoBe juice drinks, dairy, and teas
a.. SoBe energy drinks (No Fear and Adrenaline Rush)
Frito-Lay products:
a.. Lay's potato chips
a.. Lays Kettle Cooked potato chips
a.. Wavy Lay's potato chips
a.. Baked Lay's potato crisps
a.. Maui Style potato chips
a.. Ruffles potato chips
a.. Baked Ruffles potato crisps
a.. Ruffles Flavor Rush potato chips
a.. Doritos tortilla chips
a.. Baked Doritos tortilla chips
a.. 3D's snacks
a.. Tostitos tortilla chips
a.. Baked Tostitos tortilla chips
a.. Santitas tortilla chips
a.. Fritos corn chips
a.. Cheetos cheese flavored snacks
a.. Rold Gold pretzels & snack mix
a.. Funyuns onion flavored rings
a.. Go Snacks
a.. Sunchips multigrain snacks
a.. Sabritones puffed wheat snacks
a.. Cracker Jack candy coated popcorn
a.. Chester's popcorn
a.. Grandma's cookies
a.. Munchos potato crisps
a.. Smartfood popcorn
a.. Baken-ets fried pork skins
a.. Oberto meat snacks
a.. Rustler's meat snacks
a.. Churrumais fried corn strips
a.. Frito-Lay nuts
a.. Frito-Lay, Ruffles, Fritos and Tostitos dips & salsas
a.. Frito-Lay, Doritos and Cheetos snack crackers
a.. Fritos, Tostitos, Ruffles and Doritos snack kits
a.. Hickory Sticks
a.. Hostess Potato
a.. Lay's Stax potato crisps
a.. Doritos Rollitos
a.. Lay's Fries
a.. Natural Lays
a.. Natural Ruffles
a.. Natural Cheetos
a.. Natural Tostitos
a.. Miss Vickie's potato chips
a.. Munchies snack mix
And then there is the other Junk Food Giant the guy referred to......
http://www.sysco.com/products/products.asp
(note the 'fish', soups and vegetarian products....of 'junk' food it
distributes)
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