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With supplements, it's different, thanks to Orrin Hatch and his "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act". In that field you can sell next to everything, p
by HarryHirsch 11y ago
With supplements, it's different, thanks to Orrin Hatch and his "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act". In that field you can sell next to everything, provided you label it correctly. Buyer beware! If your supplement contains any elixir of sulfanilamide it's your fault, you should have educated yourself on what this elixir of sulfanilamide actually is. After all, it contains what it says on the tin.
Diagnostics are thankfully more tightly regulated.
- CamperBob2 11y ago(Shrug) I don't see the problem with this. The opposite scenario, in which everthing that's not explicitly permitted is forbidden, is worse. That's how you get a War on Drugs. Regulation of certain medical lab tests may be more reasonable. That seems like a case where informed consent on the part of each individual consumer is impractical.
- HarryHirsch 11y agoThe opposite scenario, in which everthing that's not explicitly permitted is forbidden, is worse With the degree of information asymmetry in medicine it makes sense to regulate medicinal drugs tightly. Before anyone screams: "But FDA stifles innovation" let's say that the FDA exists since the 1960s and the pharma troubles started in the early 2000s. An alternative theory is overfinancialization. Just the other day the merger between Dow and DuPont was announced. Why compete in the market when you can just buy up the competition? No expensive R & D needed!