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Chief Medical Officer Given Red Light for Giving Purity Bakeries Green Light

Submitted by Robert D. Lucas, PH.D. The Editor Barbados Underground Barbados, W.I Dear Sir/Madam, In your paper of 10th December 2019, there was an article under the caption “Purity Bakeries given the green light to operate.” According to your article, the chief medical officer (CMO), Dr. Kenneth George has given the bakery the green light…

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Submitted by Robert D. Lucas, PH.D.

The Editor
Barbados Underground
Barbados, W.I

Dear Sir/Madam,

In your paper of 10th December 2019, there was an article under the caption “Purity Bakeries given the green light to operate.” According to your article, the chief medical officer (CMO), Dr. Kenneth George has given the bakery the green light to operate.

I have a problem with the CMO giving food plants the green light to operate for the following reasons: There is a section of the Ministry of Health known as the Environmental Health Section headed by the Chief/Senior Environmental officer who is trained in environmental health ( formerly called Public Health) which is a distinct discipline from medicine. Surely, it is the function of the Chief Environmental Officer to give the all clear in the case of the bakery. I would like the CMO to state what are his credentials if any in the area of environmental health and if he feels he is competent to pass judgement on food plants operating in this island? I want him to say if he is aware of how a food plant is run and the day-to-day problems one meets in the operation of the plant. Similarly, with the sewage problem, the CMO was out front talking and as a microbiologist,it was obvious to me that he was at sea dealing with the topic.

The point I am making here is the fact that, where persons are trained in a particular discipline, they should be the ones making the decisions, not some one who has a peripheral knowledge of the subject matter.

 

Sincerely

 

Robert D. Lucas, PH.D.

63 responses to “Chief Medical Officer Given Red Light for Giving Purity Bakeries Green Light”

  1. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    I have reached my maximum number of exchanges.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    No surprise here, facts are irrefutable and stubborn.

  3. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    🙂
    The PR fluff gave us the rats.

    The whole truth is stubborn. It should not be separated in convenient bits
    🙂

  4. TheoGAzerts Avatar
    TheoGAzerts

    A beautiful morning to all of Barbados. Hopefully, you are enjoying your morning breakfast with some tea and buttered bread.
    Have a great day

  5. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    The burning question
    But Why is she living in such deplorable conditions

    Woman wants out of shed
    SDB Media,

    Added 14 December 2019

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    Mother of three, Lena Payne exiting the rodent infested garage which she converted into a home. (Picture by Kimberley Cummins.)

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    A Christ Church mother is crying out for assistance as rats have invaded the galvanised garage that she and her children have converted into a home.

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    Recalling an occasion when rat faeces fell on her bed one night, Payne said the final straw occurred recently when her six-year-old was treated for leptospirosis.

    The unemployed woman said she was then forced to send her three children to stay with her mother and brother in their two-bedroom house out of fear that the Child Care Board would take them away. She explained that she could not join them because of an acrimonious relationship with her mother

  6. Onita Avatar
    Onita

    he’s a chief medical officer, what do he know about enviormental issues, seems he’s doing someone else job. Let the health inspectors go into the bakery and demand they close down the place, and clean up the place.

  7. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is investigating to see if a prescription drug used to treat diabetes is contaminated with traces of a chemical linked to cancer.
    The impacted drug is metformin, which is used to control high blood sugar in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
    Some metformin medicines in other countries have been found to contain the carcinogen N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), but those levels were in the “naturally occurring in food and water” range.
    “While we are aware that some regulatory agencies outside the U.S. may be recalling some metformin drugs, there are no metformin recalls affecting the U.S. market at this time,” Dr. Janet Woodcock said in a statement last week.(Quote)

  8. SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife

    @Mariposa December 15, 2019 6:53 AM “The burning question But Why is she living in such deplorable conditions.”

    Her unemployment.

    Multiple children plus unemployment equals trouble

    The poor relationship with her mother.

    The poor or non-existent relationship with the father(s) of her children.

    The poor or non existent relationship with her own father.

    The lady needs paid work and paid or unpaid childcare for her children so that she can fully participate in the workforce.

    She needs financial and social support from the father or fathers of her children, and social from her own parents and siblings (if any)

    She may need job trsining so that she can move into a job which pays decent wages.

    She needs a public housing unit NOW because if she does not qualify for public housing, who then?

    I’ve heard stories [during all administrations] about people who own houses refusing to move out of the public housing units that had been assigned to them when they did not own a house. The NHC needs to evict such people, so that the truly poor can have a decent place to lay their heads at night.

  9. SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife

    “out of fear that the Child Care Board would take them away.”

    The Child Care Board does not take away people’s children.

    Children may be taken into temporary or permanent care if the parents cannot manage. As long as the parents are not abusive the parents have full access to their children who are in temporary care.

    If children are adopted out both the natural and adoptive parents can indicate in writing if they wish to resume contact once the child is 18.

  10. SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife

    https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/statement-janet-woodcock-md-director-fdas-center-drug-evaluation-and-research-impurities-found

    FDA Statement
    Statement from Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, on impurities found in diabetes drugs outside the U.S.

  11. SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife

    The metformin dispensed in Barbados is made in India

  12. SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife

    https://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2019/71831a-eng.php
    Health Canada evaluating NDMA in metformin drugs

  13. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The metformin dispensed in Barbados is made in India (Quote)

    Is it the real thing?

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