Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. (IPCI)

[WeeZuhl]

You're citing a friggin' 13 year old FDA report

LOL. The reason it is 13 years old is because we stopped doing it. We stopped feeding people blue dye #1. Until now, until Rexista. I was a medical resident in the ICU at UPMC not long after the FDA Advisory came out. We talked about it on rounds one day. My attending asked the team, "Why don't we just squirt some blue dye down this guy's NG tube to see if he aspirates it?"

If I was totally full of shit, I'd tell you I knew the answer that day. But that was before the start of resident work hour limits, and truth is I was probably barely awake. None of us knew about the FDA Advisory, and so he told us about it and the New England Journal letter I posted earlier.

I learned that day that blue dye is a serious risk for a sick patient. And in the case of Rexista-- a serious risk with no benefit to the legitimate user.