(Mint Press) — In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered that Cetero Research, a major drug research contractor, had been faking documents and manipulating samples. Two separate investigations, one by an internal group and the other by a third party audit, found “significant instances of misconduct and violations” at the Cetero facility in Houston.
Likely motivated by greed, a probe by the European Medicines Agency found that between Cetero and Roche and Genentech, a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company, 80,000 reports of health-related products marketed in the U.S. were never submitted and 15,161 patients in the U.S. died.
The FDA added that “the pattern of misconduct was serious enough to raise concerns about the integrity of the data Cetero generated” between April 2005 and June 2010.
The investigations also found that between 2005 and 2010, there were about 1,900 instances in which Cetero laboratory personnel were recorded as working on studies, when in reality they weren’t even in any Cetero facility, resulting in the FDA suspecting many studies were “fixed” to get the desired result or failed to include all results in their report.
As Natural News reported in 2011, since data has been available over the past 27 years, there haven’t been any deaths as a result of vitamins but there has been more than 3 million deaths related to prescription drug use.
Mayo Clinic commented on the issue, saying that because pharmaceutical companies are motivated by profits and the amount of drug fraud is so prevalent, the last 10 years of cancer research is useless.
Not all medical or drug studies are fraudulent, but when the motivation is profit, altering the findings of studies to earn billions of dollars becomes quite enticing. Though, many whistleblowers in the industry have stepped forward in recent years in order to protect the public.
For example Eli Lily and Company, the makers of Prozac, hid for years that there was a link between suicide and anti-psychotic drugs. But in 2005 Harvard psychiatrist Martin Teicher leaked the information to the press, saying the American people were being “treated like guinea pigs in a massive pharmaceutical experiment.”
Since January, seven drug companies have been accused of committing fraud. The most recent case being Merck, who has been accused of fraudulently informing the public that its Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) II vaccine is effective.
According to two Merck whistleblowers, a supervisor working for Merck manually changed test results to show that the vaccine worked and destroyed evidence to keep the fraud from being exposed. The whistleblowers also reported that the supervisor lied to FDA regulators who came to check on the laboratories after they were alerted to the vaccine fraud.