101.5 KNUE Country Radio » fda http://knue.com Fri, 24 May 2013 12:25:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Was The FDA To Blame For The Meningitis Outbreak? [POLL] http://knue.com/was-the-fda-to-blame-for-the-meningitis-outbreak-poll/ http://knue.com/was-the-fda-to-blame-for-the-meningitis-outbreak-poll/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:00:15 +0000 Amy Austin http://knue.com/?p=168550 Personally, I think the FDA dropped the ball  - bigtime - on the steroid injections contaminated with meningitis. So when I read the story about them picking on the Avon lady, (my take on it) I got pretty angry.

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But now the FDA is saying, Not so fast.

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