Sulfa Drug Antibiotics Linked to Birth Defects

Sulfa drugs are widely used to treat urinary tract infections during pregnancy.  A new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control finds that taken during pregnancy they increase the risk for a variety of birth defects¹ including:  neural tube defects, various cardiovascular disorders, hernia, and shortened limb growth.

Sulfa drugs are the oldest antibiotic – made by the Germans and derived from coal tar.  The FDA has never made the German drug companies prove they were safe.  Instead, when the FDA got actual regulatory power in the late 1930s they immediately allowed coal tar derived food coloring as an approved food additive, and the Germans proceeded to dump 39 billion tons of this toxic garbage into the U.S. food supply the first year – a problem that has only gotten worse. 

It should not be short on the memory of any American that these drug companies (Bayer, BASF, & Hoechst) worked hand-in-glove with Hitler and were instrumental in funding the build up of the Nazi war machine and WWII (thanks FDA).  These drug companies also invented the coal tar derived nerve gas that was used in Hitler’s concentration camps.  Following WWII the same toxins became the first pesticides used on U.S. crops, starting the first Green Revolution (and the decline in health of Americans).

The fact that German drug companies have been poisoning pregnant mothers with Sulfa drugs for over 75 years, while the inept FDA allows the sales while spending its time targeting competition to such toxic drugs, is exactly what is wrong with the FDA.