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Do I remember it? It changed the entire way I have to go about compounding medications for every patient (that I am allowed to anyway) because some bad actors, trying to be manufacturers when they were NOT, were making bank by compounding drugs in an unethical way (or so it seems). It still makes me angry to remember that entire incident which created an unmitigated cascade of federal rules, regulations and laws and basically put another 50-75% of the REMAINING independent pharmacies out of business (the rest having gone down with the part D ship). I am forever grateful that I was no longer a pharmacy owner at that period in time. But every time they clamp down a little harder (and we get new stricter rules at least every other year) I wince and die a little inside, because to me, the entire incident now seems "manufactured" to put the little guy OUT OF BUSINESS. There were some other things that occurred around this same period of time where (they claim) some predatory "compounding pharmacies" were calling patients/doctors and trying to sell their compounds especially to Tricare beneficiaries (because nobody thinks that the DOD pays attention to these kinds of things?). I'm not saying there aren't any unethical small town pharmacists, there almost certainly are. But why did all this go down during this period of time? Call me crazy, but cui bono? Not the patient. Not the small town pharmacist. Big Pharma came out ok though didn't they???? Control freaks are happy af. Can't have some pip squeak doing something that might be helpful to some other nobody. Then they might think they don't need big daddy government to take care of them. (it appears you may have struck a nerve--sorry!!)

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I think it has gotten to the point where we need to start taking better care of ourselves, stop making bad choices that hurt our bodies, and stop believing in medicine and or the government to take care of us. It is as simple as that. We are on our own.

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I welcome any knowledge shared by anyone whose input makes honest sense. It does not mean I've anything meaningful to say on the subject. Nor do I feel an urge to push back (so far).

I was raised by a mother who detested the chief talking point of early sixties' pedagogy, namely dr. Spock. In Belgium back then, and one decade earlier, giving birth meant pills, sedatives and cleanliness (?), accompanied by nurses that were hard to distinguish from nuns or teachers in catholic schools. Later, my mum told us (children) that human absorb 7 kilos of dirt per year, so what's there to worry about? I still like her happy-go-lucky approach, but there are downsides to it. My hygienic habits aren't stainless. And 7 kilos does seem a lot.

In high school, I once visited a classmate during a late afternoon. Next day, the classmate presented me with the verdict. "My parents said you screwed up, Pim. Friendly but... MESSY!'

'How so, Robert? I was having a polite conversation with you and your parents. For an hour!'

'You totally screwed up... the threads of the carpet.'

WHAT?!

As i said, I once made that visit, not twice. I wonder how/if Robert survived his upbringing, but I am disinclined to find out. But maybe he remembers me occasionally while asking this very question; albeit for vastly different reasons, probably.

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Thank you, Pim!! And I am still laughing about the carpet threads.

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I'd say any pharmaceutical products nowadays are a high-risk chance. Back in the Age of Enlightenment, the best physicians were the ones with the bloodiest aprons. Not much has changed. As we move further away from spirituality and more towards pharmakeía our life force becomes more compromised, and our bodies (which are the temples of the soul) become more beaten up. Seems like we have reached entropy in the healing arts, for the profits of a select few.

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You put it very poignantly, thank you!!

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Watch out! Watch out! The mice began to shout.

The winds blow bad and the butcher's needle's out.

Whether trans, girl or male...

Please! Take care for your tail...

Your blood, your genome, and snout!

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"...contaminated pharmaceutical products are very much a reality..." EXACTLY. I'll never understand how people can admit that peanuts and bee stings can kill people, but something created in a lab out of unnatural materials couldn't possibly ever hurt anyone. People really need to start being willing to question *all* medication they take and learn about what's in it and the potential side effects. If I had a lab coat and a stethoscope and came up to a stranger with a bottle of pills and said, "Hey, I just developed this new pill that cures everything!" Would you take it? Most people would not. But, if I put ads on TV and sponsored a show on a news channel people would line up to take it. We must start paying attention to our bodies and start managing our own health instead of thinking that the next new drug or shot is going to be the answer to our woes.

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Hi Phar, do you remember the TV series “Mr. Ed?” A man who could talk to Horses. (comedy.)

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Why all of a sudden has the FDA noticed LEAD and other HEAVY METALS in water and Baby Food, or that certain cold/flu meds don't work? The Heavy Metals has been a decade or more, and we've used the cold/flu meds for nearly as long.

Not a word about the Melatonin poisoning of an infant who died and toddlers by caretakers, over a decade ago. Yet accept these GUMMY THINGS A CHILD COULD EAT AND OD ON AS NORMAL? GUMMY KIDS VITS, individual adult ones, not in childproof caps, not that it stops them. My 3 boys were opening the first childproof caps the government required for me. Don't they remember the Tylenol poisoning?

They do remember the Recin one as it came in their mail. They went to form emails.

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Tessa, many options are available to help heal the body, which is faced with so many of these assaults -

https://denutrients.substack.com/p/mycoplasmas-revisited-nature-provides

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There is a likely unwritten story out there. Who at the FDA tests drugs? (is this work farmed out?) What processes and labs are used? When are the tests performed? (regularly with each batch? only once? only if something unexpected is noticed?) Where is the data kept and is it publicly accessible? How many recalls are done annually?

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If you watch Garth Nicolson's interview in the article, he once asked a pharma exec about testing vaccines (pre-2020) for mycoplasma contaminations. According to Nicolson, the exec said, "What, are you trying to put us out of business?"

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So they finally got their pound of flesh.

I never did any compounds for injectable use because of this, except for at the hospital where we were decently equipped for it.

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The first compound rub I used was what became Voltaren arthritis cream. It literally set my GI tract on fire. To this day you can't convince a dr. that a rub can get into your bloodstream. I stick with Arnica Gel, it works and has no GI issues. My ENDO couldn't believe that the change in the Blue Dye in Synthroid 1.37 mcg could cause 3 skin diseases in the 3 days I took them. The Military pharmacy finally switched to the Chinese-made ones. I can only take name brand. Primary put me on 2 different doses, with no Blue dye. Took months for the skin to heal. Cradle Cap at 75?

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Glad you got it figured out, one of the few, but obviously very intelligent, good luck.

-Edwin

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Thank you, lots of meds cause GERD. Now if they'd remove the Barrett's Esophagus pre-cancers, caused by the GERD I'd feel more at peace.

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Thank you for the diligent research, Tessa.

;-(

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This is very sad research, so many people might have been in a much better state if there were any basic human decency at play in the pharmaceutical industrty!

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👍🏽👍👍🏿 Yes, take caution of ALL Vaxx protocols, as well as the ingredients the capsules containing meds are made out of, and many supplements, dental & veterinary pharmaceuticals…the air, water, food and food packaging & containers… ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️

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Who really watches over where drugs are made? I mean REALLY watches. Many popular medications are made in China and India and who knows where else? It’s not required to be on the label.

America is no guarantee of safety either. After being operational for decades a plant in Ohio that made cancer drugs was shut down for unsanitary conditions including finding a bucket of urine on the floor.

Once the products are packaged in clean-looking boxes, bottles, vials and packets then distributed from local pharmacies we assume they’re uncontaminated. But how do we know? What does contamination look like? It’s invisible. We are expected to trust.

Covid serums were setup for manufacturing all over the world at lightning speed with no threat of lawsuits over dirty products. How would anyone know if that clear liquid in the syringe had unsanitary filth in it? Yet I would bet you lunch some did.

The entire response to the plandemic from lockdowns masking and shots was one giagantic cluster fuck with multiple points of failure baked in. People need to grow some brain cells and INSIST this NEVER happens again.

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The answer is: they are supposed to be tested thoroughly but they are not. And thank you for the mention of the urine bucket, I had to look it up!

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My former manager at the Cleveland Clinic’s husband worked there. She told me he wasn’t surprised when the place was shut down. He said if people knew the conditions inside that plant they’d be sick to their stomachs. Which, of course begs the question, how many others are operating similarly all over the world that we know nothing about?

https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2013/10/bedford-based_ben_venue_to_shu.html

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Exactly! Thank you for the link. I may write a short article about it. Its astounding, the difference between perception of cleanliness and how things work in the real world!

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There was a video on Rumble showing the blue masks everyone was forced to wear being manufactured in filthy conditions in India. Strewn all over the floor in what looked like a dirty apartment with old sewing machines by barefoot people. Some were rejected because they had flies squashed in them. Once inside nice boxes and shipped to Amazon, Walmart and everywhere else. Nobody would know.

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The gov't is notoriously SLOW to admit any wrong on their part; look how long vets contaminated by agent orange had to wait for benefits to cover that damage! The Gulf War vets got burn pit damage covered a bit faster. And after 3 decades the CDC FINALLY admitted HIV transmits exactly like hepatitis, but only as an afterthought on 1 of the public pages they used to publish for subscribers on line, and they changed none of their protocols and cautions regarding PSAs about it, so people could protect themselves, because the contaminated sure won't!

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Well, The Gulf War vets got burn pit damage covered a bit faster most likely because the government was trying to camouflage the Damage Done by Anthrax "vaccines "... did any of the Vets get competition for the effects of those shots? I knew where Gulf War vet who was able to refuse the shots, he did not get sick but all of his buddies did 🫤

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Not as yet, it at least it has not been generally reported as such in VA publications they send us.

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Look how long it took for the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. And not all Military damage from AG is covered. Or the toxic chemicals they cleaned with. My Hub developed Retinal Neuropathy, holes in his vision, not long after his 20 years were up. Now has severe Glaucoma to add to it. He was Avionic on the Flight Deck. Gardasil or HPV is just starting to be screamed about in the USA. Gates did his testing in the poorest sections of India and Africa, then faked the findings. Class Action lawsuits are happening, but not widely public.

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Right you are! They are known in veterans information but not much further.

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