On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 05:20:20PM +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >Me, I suspect the manufacturer never did any real testing
> >of the stuff. 80 people immediately becoming sick is
> >something that would have been probably been caught
> >in animal testing for one...
> 
> Possibly not considering the drugs trial that has gone horribly wrong in
> London. As I understand it the trial drug given to the "patients" had been
> tested on chimpanzees or apes, with no reaction whatsoever, but when given
> to humans it puts 100% of those given it into intensive care hospital beds
> within an hour.

Well, I should say that I would have also expected the manufacturer to
do some tests on humans too, once the product had passed animal testing.
At least then it'd be on informed volunteers with proper medical
monitoring.

Depends on the scale of the tests of course, perhaps it's only one in
10,000 consumers that are affected, even if they are quite severely
affected. Testing might not catch that sort of situation.

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