Add the list of BP meds they had to pull off the shelves.
There is this cushion of comfort that some people have because of what they think the FDA does, just like they think there's a health inspector in the kitchen of their favorite restaurant keeping watch. All you have to do is consider the first word of the FDA to assume it's not on top of it.
Years ago, Celebrex, an inflammatory drug, came out to rave reviews, except for some possible long term side effects but it took off like Viagra sales. Merck saw that and quickly developed Vioxx to counter Celebrex and smooth out some of those side effects and they went on a concerted campaign to get docs to change over, with rewards of course, as my Dad's doc did. After Vioxx had been out for a couple of years, they noticed one slightly alarming side effect, heart attacks and strokes. This med was one of the most fast tracked drugs in FDA history. Well, they got lawsuits, had to stop making it but no one was asking the tough questions, how did this happen so fast?
The Zantac thing is different as that is ingredient driven because they are discovering new cancer agents constantly that they were unaware of before. The greatest hoax played on the public to get more money from them is that we are beating cancer. New carcinogens are showing up and mutations increasing because it will not die. It knows that we will keep it alive through our lifestyle enriching ways. Hey, don't pull weeds like they used to have to do, that's hard work, use Round-Up. And let's make sure we use pesticides against the enemy we can see and strengthen the one we can't.
OK, pissed off rant over but nothing frustrates me more than knowing it does not have to be this way. There are enemies not of our creation but we've created the worst ones. And too often in the effort to defeat the ones we can see.