>There was a terrible instance of bad L-trp that caused like
>2000 permanent disabilities, but the manufacturing flaws that
>caused them werent known at the time. So there was a
>moratorium, which im sure Big Pharm was glad for.
>
>As of 2001 tho its no longer banned for sale or production

There was a contaminated batch of L-Tryptophan that came from Japan that caused two deaths. The FDA rushed in and banned L-Tryptophan for human use (except as an additive in baby food... let that sink in for a bit). The cause -was- known at the time and even with that knowledge the FDA still banned it.

A few days later, Prozac made the cover of Time Magazine.

Prozac was also directly attributed to over a dozen deaths during clinical trials but was still allowed on the market.


In the early 90's, a treatment for the very condition that the contaminated L-Tryptophan was banned for was patented... The treatment used L-Tryptophan to treat it.

In the 80's, the FDA was controlled by individuals installed during the Reagan administration by Donald Rumsfeld, then president and CEO of GD Searle, the company that brought us aspartame. Those individuals were "sympathetic", to say the least, to Pharma's requests.




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