FDA OKs Beautifying Your Pills. Your shiny, pretty Pills.

[elehhhhna]

FDA OKs Beautifying Your Pills
NewsMax.com Wires


WASHINGTON -- If you think beauty can't go more than skin deep, swallow this: Health officials on Thursday said drug companies could start gussying up their pills with pigments like those that give cosmetics a pearly sheen.

The pearlescent pigments can be used in any drugs that are swallowed, including pills, tablets and liquids, the Food and Drug Administration said. As a result, drugs may never look the same again.

The pigments can produce sparkly metallic, satiny and shimmery finishes, as well as different hues of red and gold, depending partly on the color of the underlying drug.

[OhioChick]

1. ..............

:wtf:

Isn't it more important to just try to make medications more affordable to all??

[AndyA]

2. Today's Fancy Pill Coatings = Tomorrow's Cancer?

I'm not so sure this is a good thing. Why dress up pills? Is this encouragement to continue taking them? So many things used in food and candy in the past have turned out to be bad for us years later. I remember a certain dye used in M&M's to color them that was later banned.

With all the problems in the world today, we certainly don't need metallic pills to swallow. What a waste of time.

[meegbear]

11. That's exactly what I thought when I read the post ...

must be another great shrub appointee who thought this up.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Remember what the dormouse said:

"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"

[lectrobyte]

4. In America, appearance is everything. Like the $500K McMansions

they are building with a pretty stone/brick facade on the street side, but vinyl siding on the other 3 sides. No, not hardiplank, or masonite, actual vinyl siding...

[jmowreader]

12. Vinyl's better than Masonite

At least it doesn't rot like Masonite does.

It still doesn't belong on a $500k house.

Scary thing: up until about a year ago, the biggest McMansion builder in Fayetteville built his $350k homes with Masonite siding and 20-year shingles. He only quit doing it when his realtor told him he would not list any more new homes with that crap on them.

[elehhhhna]

15. Hardiplank is crap.

[ticapnews]

5. You'll feel better once you take your Soma.

Whatever color you make it.

[Skidmore]

6. I wonder if they've given any thought to people with allergies

to dyes?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Well, THIS should discourage little children from mistaking

medicine from candy . . . (dripping sarcasm)

[Mnemosyne]

13. My first thought also. Dunderheads. n/t

[LoZoccolo]

8. This actually isn't a bad idea.

Some people take medications that look similar to each other; making them more differentiatable might keep people from taking the wrong one.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. That's Cool. Should Really Help Those That Take Multiple Medications Sort

them out more easily.

[lumpy]

10. Cosmetically enhanced pills.

Oh yeahhhhh, can't wait to get my first batch of sparkly blood pressure pills, preferably in pink please.

[greenbriar]

14. more attractive to kids as well NOT a good thing

my sister almost died 30 years ago because she found some pills and thought there were candy because they were red.

had to put a needle in her heart in the ambulance


this is not a good thing ... this gussying up pills