Keeping You Safe And Breathing Hard
25th July 2011
The Food and Drug Administration has banned the only over-the-counter asthma inhaler, Primatene Mist, on the grounds that it releases chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and is thus bad for the ozone layer.
We’re from the government, and we’re here to help … everybody but you.
July 25th, 2011 at 15:55
Medical devices were specifically exempted under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (Title VI). The current EPA is run by the most outrageous bunch of knotheads ever to sit in Washington. The amount of CFC released from Primatine inhalers in incredibly tiny. Meanwhile, large Asian parts of the world use Freon without restriction. So CFC releases to the atmosphere have not been reduced worldwide.
Does anybody still remember that the reason for banning CFCs was because it was suspected that they might cause the Ozone Hole over the North Pole? Gosh, you don’t read much about that anymore, do you! Yet it continues to grow and shrink with apparently no relation to anything going on here on the ground.
Science evolves as new information becomes available. Regulations, on the other hand, only evolve into more complicated versions of the fungus that attached itself to the issue to begin with.