BigPharma does nearly all the testing of their stuff, with too small samples, and for about 90 days, AND they suppress negative results, and pimp positive results. It's totally corrupt without any effective oversight, since so many of the FDA mucky mucks actually worked for and will be going back to BigPharma. This is pretty much S.O.P:
http://rense.com/general33/fd.htm
briefly, the FDA and BigPharma are effectivitly indistinguishable.
And if any FDA researchers, scientist express differently, ie, blow whistles, from the FDA/BigPharma, FDA snoops their communications, and will fire them. The absence of FDA integrity, its corruption, is safely assumed to be total.
BigPharma corps have been fined nearly $20B over the last 20 years or so for killing/maiming people. Fines are written off as a business expense, and I suppose fully tax deductible as a loss.
Same story with Fed + Treasury + SEC, as TARP, etc QE proved beyond any doubt.
The complete capture of regulatory/legislative apparatus by corporations is irrecoverable. And Gecko says he will even kill the weak EPA, financial, etc regulations if elected.