Oregon daily emerald., January 13, 1986, Page 5, Image 5

National_
Report says drug
residue taints food
WASHINGTON (AP) -The
Pood and Drug Administration
hasn't protected consumers
from exposure to dangerous
drugs given to animals that
could turn up in meat, milk and
poultry, a House committee
charged Sunday in e new
report.
The House Government
Operations Committee said the
PDA has lost sight of its mission
• to protect the public from the
residues of veterinury drugs.
“FDA has consistently
disregarded its responsibility
for assuring the safety of drugs
used in food-producing
animals," said Rep. Ted Weiss. ■
D-N.Y.i chair of the panel's ’sub
committee on hunian resources-. .'
"in releasing the report. " „ . ’
/ ''PDA has. repeatedly - put- •
what it perceives are.itilerestsrof
veterinarians and'the .livestock
industry in the availability, of f
. additional animal drug's ahead *
- of its. legal obligation to protect
.' coifsumers. from, the potentiajly
ha/ardp.us' residues they may . .
• "o leave-in: meat, milk and;eggs,*" .
L/ . Weiss said. ' '•
The committee's.-repo# was--'
' Baser I on.tvyo slays ad congros; ..
along! hearings.last -summer at
" which PDA'.officials com eded .
\ * That only a small percentage of
the estimated .20,000 ';anim”ai
.drugs on the market have bp’eii.
' "approved by-the^agenry. '\/y'
. ■ Dr. . I .ester Crawford.- .then ’
Head .of (he: PDA's center for. •
veterinary medicine, told
Weiss’ Hubcommittee that the
agency hag approved only about
2.900 drugg.
"We're not able to monitor
for all the (drug) products that
might be used,” Crawford
testified. While federal law re
quires such monitoring.
Crawford said the situation "is
not completely under control
and never has been. We do the
best we can." • . •
However, Crawford also told
the panel there was no evidence
that consumers have been harm
ed by meat. cheese or other food
contaminated w.i'th .drug
residue. •• > • . .
Nevertheless, the House .com
mittee said -in its -report'that..
testimony before- the panel
sho.vys:'' • . . .
•Ninety .percent p.r more of
the -new. animal -drugs on-.the '
market .have not.becn approved
by theiFHA as safeaiid effect ive..
glthodfeh s.uclf. a .finding is- re
quirfed b'yJaVv;,t - • * .•.
• „•■ • |)fugs'/ ’tiiS.t 1 have. lS*n. ;»*ps> *.
■proypd.by* the PUA‘often were
,approved y<>ars.agq using safety -
standardsnow- Considered"in-. .
adequate .^Yr>t, the."committee.
tsaid.-lhe FDA in i<lH2 canceled
a program to. re view’-tjie sfi‘drugs
“under.fttodem sahdy'standards'
'.■-•The; FP*A lias failed .to move .
:agai'i\st .drug's ."that. ha'v'e .been "
found to.be'potWtjaliy cancer-' *
causing‘.age'iits siiice Chey Jvere
first "marketed. "
Reports indicate terrorists
trained in Syrian territory
Washington (AP) -Secretary of State
George Shultz said Sunday that intelligence
reports indicate the terrorisis who attacked the
Rome and Vienna airports last month were
trained in the Syrian-controlled territory of
(.ebanon.
Hut “to what extent, of course. . .that in
volved the Syrian authorities, we re not able to
say,” Shultz said.
Appearing on the CBS program "Face the
Nation." Shultz acknowledged that U.S. and
other intelligence agencies had determined the
terrorists had “been in the Bekaa Valley, (of
eastern Lebanon) and gone, through
Damascus."
Despite the new intelligence information,,
"there is no plan or thought about" imposing
.similar sanctions on Syria. Shy Itz.said.
I hope Syria will not do things that will
make that necessary, and my guess is that they
won’t/' the secretary said.
Shultz said while Syria is on the State
Department's list of countries supporting ter
rorism, ‘Syria's picture is a rather different
One.. . Syria’s behavior toward all these things
is rather different from Libya’s.” ..
“And beyond that, of course, we are work
ing with Syria on a number of fronts in a con
structive way,” Shultz added. •
Shultz was apparently responding to
Syrian officials, quoted in Sunday editions of
.1 he New York Times, who expressed irritation
over remarks last week by a top U.S. official
that sanctions might be imposed.against Syria.
Soviet dissident prepares for surgerV
BOSTON.(AP} —Soviet d issi
„dent Yelena' Bonner entered a
•• hospital.- Sunday for vhea'rt
surgery, worried . because .she "
has received no'vford in‘more.'
..'than tw«j .weeks' from Jter” hus
band-, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
' Andrei* Sakharov^' 'her -family
said; ;-. . • • *
. ^'Bonnef. »62._ ■ who-, suffers."
• severe "heart pain, waved to
• reporters”; smiled and said good-'
• bye, but.*had no comrnenfas she
• entered.-Massachusetts’.tleneraf
- Hospital ..with hetmot her:* Ruth
Bonner-, .and Her son. ’Alexei'
Bernydjttqy.'.. . •
Bonner came'to Boston in
I
December - on a three-month
medical visa,that was. granted
by Soviet authorities.just before
• a ^summit -meeting "between
'Soviet ‘leader'- Mikhail Gor
bachev and-President Reagan'
«ijul following a- series of pro- .
.-'tests. and ■ appeals By her
. relatives and supporters in this,
country.
•. • Bonner.,a-.pediatrician, was
■sentenced to internal exile in
"the.remote Soviet city of Gorky
. two years ago' for slander
-.against the state. Sakharov, B4..
a renowned physicist, was sent
to Gorky in i?»80 without a trial.
Herr-son-in-law, .F.frem
Yankelevich, said the family .
hopes;a telephone call schedul- ■
ed Tuesday to;. SakKarpv from;'.
Bonner's private_ hospital room
will alleviate her fears..' -
• ■"He was supposed'to.write at- ’
least two postcards and she,
does not have any s.ince Dec. .
28,*” Yankelevich said. 1
. The call- was” originally set.
earlier in the month, But 'Soviet.'' '.
operators. rescheduled „ it for
Tuesday,* blaming overbooked
circuits, he said . ' %- ” ' .'.
Two' calls . to • Sakharov.- .in
December, were cut off by static;
which the family blamed on
jamming. . .
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