10 The Guardian. Charlottetown. Thurs, Jan. 81, 1963. Urged During Tesi Period OTTAWA iC‘Pi ~The chief of the the federal food and drug direc- said ‘W H. says commiitce. Mr. , iPM’s Speech May Indicate New COh‘h‘OIs Over DruQs Milestone In Defence Field OTTAWA (C? l—— Maj.-Gcn.'scnsible defence policy. I . S. Macklin. former ad- .jutant-general of the Canadian Prime r Diefenbaker's controversial Mnutcithircscarch facilities to check newispeech on nuclear arms in the the government has nondrugs being introduced in Can-lCommons last week may prove. a milestone on the way to a “n has been supported by an [hakert is p ro b a My unallyidiscarded, or converted to other H frightening deficit of maven endless s t re a m of spurious reaching the soul-wrecking con- uses than to wage nuclear war, itioual force. ' propaganda. initiated by the iclusion that the Bomarc missile i and if so it was encouraging. ; "Our role should be to redu. United States Air Force. odoo interceptor arei Finally. there was the prime ithe deficit. It may be that ti“ curred in by our own RCAF, without any military value." minister's comment thatmrime minister's speech “iii and backed by the great Amer- The next inference was that.“greater and greater emphasisiturn out to be a milepost .. .ican industries that feed on it.” ‘the prime minister now appar-{must be placed on conventional lthe way to a sensible dcfencn Th “. d 1 V . The general says much ofiently realized that adoption of arms and conventional forces." ipolicy. Maybe even the detour: ’ 9‘.”1‘”“’.E°"°rfa Mr. Dicfcnbakcr's speech wasinuclcar arms by Canada can- Of this says Gen. Macklin: ‘minister may some day .‘ ::“I:it(i‘ci‘“cm\1\r;tht:tn “gin “9: in: 59 cryptic that various deduc-l not increase the value of the “This is the most enlightened ipmve what the prime mimsior' copmm NORAD “has r“everttions can be made from it, but deterrent. This was a step to- Lstatemem made on defence bfseemed to be; getting. at," . The?" other than a huge military he believes some valid conclu- wards defence sanity. ‘anv gowmmem in the past mi Gen. Maclnin predicted “lat ‘ . I ‘ .lellS also can fairly be drawn. It also looked as though Mr. ~ ,before long the Bomarc in (,a fraud. conceived m panic m the N0 MILITARY USE Diefenbaker was warning that years- We suffer from a PIP-lads, will 31145.3; pentagon." “the is that be (Mr. Diefcn-ithe CF-lt‘M might have to be thora of nuclear deterrent and Avrn Arrow to the scrap map Minis- tcr=te has r eco m m e n d ed a intention of setting up clahoratciada. series of new controls over drugs during their testing pe riod and said the health minis- ter should have authority to require manufacturers to recall drugs immediately if there is evidence of danger. Dr. C‘. A. Morrcll told the special Commons committee on drugs and chemical food can tamination that his department should have authority to stop clinical trials promptly during the investiic'ation period—prior to approval for public distribu- tion-4f the minister considers there is public danger. He also said he thought strengthening was needed In the section of the act concerning experimental investigations by manufacturers, MAKES PROPOSALS Specific suggestions he made included: i. The authority by the minis- Ier to demand that manufac- turers give the food and drug directorate the entire Informa- tion it has on a new drug under Investigation. . closer check on the selection of the qualified inves- tigators who carry out tests. .'i. T department should know in advance the persons to whom the manufacturer sends his drugs for investigation and should have the authority to disagree with the manufactur- er's proposals. 4. The ministcr should have authority to stop clinical trials promptly during investigation _if he thinks there is a public danger. During the hearing. Health Minister Monteith disclosed that the provinces so far have re- ported a total of 41 confirmed cases of deformed births result- ing mothers taking the drug thalidomide during preg- nancy. In addition. Quebec reported es of malformations among babies but these had not been classified as to whether they resulted from thalidomide. Mr. Monteith also affirmed the government‘s conviction that. a manufacturer must ac- cept full responsibility for something he puts his name on and sells to the general public. DISCUSS LIEFCORT Dr. Morrell. questioned about the drug liefcort. developed by‘ a Montreal physician as a treat- 1 meni for arthritis. said he did not fecl it would have been found suitable by his depart- ment bad it been submitted for approval as a new drug for general public distribution. He said that at present. lief- cort can be used only by its developer. Dr. Robert Lief— mann. and cannot be sold. Dr. Morrcll told the commit- tee that some more drug con- trol regulations are being. considered and above amendments to the Food and, Drug Act last. fall. One proposal was that manufacturers be re- quired by law to keep recordsE so it can be known whether drugs have been distributed. DIRECTORATE ADDS ONE Mr. Monteith said an Increase‘ of 12 members in the food and drug directorate slaff had been recommended but only one per- son has been hired so far. hr. Morrell. who has advo- cated an increase In his drug section staff of about 660. said there was a difficulty In re- cruitment. He did not olaho« HP also said thal of the new. drugs submitted by manufac-. turers for federal appproval. the directorate has had to require additional information In about half the cases. . Final approval of many drugs. had been delayed up to a year to await this information. In an opening statement. to Tanker Freed Near Montreal MONTREAL iCPiw'I‘hc 6.500- ton oil tanker .I. Edouard Sim- ard resumed her voyage to- ward Montreal Tuesday after' Ice-breakers freed her from a giant Ice jam in Lake St. Peter, 80 miles down the St. Lawrence River. The vessel. carrying heating oil from Halifax. was reportedi making slow proerSs with Ihe‘» Ice-breaker Ernest Lapolnte es-i corting her. . PIUSVILLE The weekly card party was} held Tuesday evening at the; ome 'r. and .. Aubin‘ Gallant with 7 tables in play. Prizes were won by Peter . Gallant. Mrs. Archie Gallant, Maxim Gallant. Herman Corcor an and Mrs. Oscar Gallant. A. delicious lunch was sen/ed fol-1 lowing the card play. 2 Miss Shirley Murray. nurse-In- tralntng in Prince County Hos- pital. Summer-side. spent the weekend at the home of her par- ents. Mr. and Mrs. Warburton Murray Piusville. us to the slippery roadsi snow storm. all "I and buses were cancelled Thursday morning. 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