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We don't follow that pattern with 3 of your 4 examples. The FDA regulates and approves anesthetics, antibiotics, and birth control drugs. We required new drug m

We don't follow that pattern with 3 of your 4 examples. The FDA regulates and approves anesthetics, antibiotics, and birth control drugs. We required new drug makers to prove both safety and efficacy of their medication before they are approved for use on the general population. I think I think we should do the same thing for industrial chemicals/additives or anything that gets released into the environment from an industrial/commercial process. You don't get to poison the town then say "oops how could we have known better".

RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
The development of anesthesia predates the FDA. Look at how Morton, Liston, and others were developing and using anesthesia for surgery without regulatory oversight. Regulation came later. Antibiotics were developed and saw use without FDA oversight. I don't think Penicillin ever underwent the clinical trials that drugs do now. Only after issues surfaced, were they regulated more strictly.