On 12/01/2014 10:04 AM, andy pugh wrote: > Wikipedia led me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_sulfanilamide > which is interesting, and does rather suggest that your FDA is necessary.
The FDA now does little to ensure product safety, but they do add millions to the cost of drug development. They refer to the large pharmaceutical companies as "our customers" in internal documents. They're essentially a big government bureaucracy that has formed a symbiotic relationship with large pharmaceutical companies. The FDA bureaucracy benefits as their government jobs are justified, and Big Pharma benefits by having a barrier to entry for smaller competitors that are unable to run the expensive and convoluted FDA regulatory maze. In the above example, the large pharmaceutical company Massengill paid a very small fine for negligently marketing their sulfanilamide product that killed a hundred people (many of them were children). The small fine was levied because the product was marketed as an elixir but contained no alcohol. Apparently, there was no fine for including a toxic substance that killed people. But things got better after the FDA, and the FDA approved products were safe. Right? The list of unsafe drugs approved by the FDA would fill an encyclopedia. Here is but one gruesome example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_crisis In the US, you're likely to see a vaguely worded televised ad during the evening news, urging you to "ask your doctor if Xycomax may be right for you." The FDA prohibits drug companies from marketing directly to consumers, but Big Pharma spends BILLIONS every year on direct-to-consumer ads, but they need to be properly vague, with an entire industry of lawyers and marketing agents to facilitate these ads. Two weeks later, you'll see a televised ad, after midnight, with some sleazy lawyer. "Have you taken Xycomax and had kidney failure, hair loss, or depression? Call us and we can get you a big check!" For all of the justifiable complaining about ambulance chasing lawyers and their rip-off class action lawsuits where the victims get pennies and the lawyers get millions, these weasel lawyers do more to ensure the safety of drugs marketed in the US than the FDA. On 12/01/2014 11:28 AM, dave wrote: > I do believe di-ethylene-glycol and ethylene glycol are the same thing. Nope. Ethylene glycol - C_2 H_6 O_2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol Diethylene glycol - C_4 H_10 O_3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylene_glycol Back On Topic: A few of the hobby and small business entrepreneur machinists on YouTube (Grimsmo Knives, Tactical Keychains, WarMachine) are posting videos of improvements they've made to their coolant systems. Typically, the coolant drains through one or two settling tanks where the big chips are removed. There is often a coarse filter, sometimes a fine screen, and sometimes a disposable 5 gallon bucket paint strainer. Next in line is a high pressure pump, often a Little Giant pond pump. After the pump is a "whole house water filter" (search Amazon.com for examples) to catch the fine chips that pass through the pump, to prevent the tiny chips in the flood coolant from being re-cut and reducing the life of carbide tooling. a 20 micron filter provides good filtration for this purpose without too much pressure drop. Apparently, Qualichem synthetic coolants are well regarded. http://www.qualichem.com/metalworking-fluids ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
