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Thank you, and this is the heart of the argument. I also wonder who's behind this push from the agency. It took them 40 years to get the labeling for tylenol r

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > It took them 40 years to get the labeling for tylenol right.. [...] > They are moving rather quickly on this one... my only question is, why/how?? You are comparing apples and oranges. It didn't take them 40 years to get to the point where Tylenol had to go through the procedure requiring FDA approval for marketing a drug (which is generally similar in origin to the parallel requirement for medical devices.) Likewise, its quite possible that 40 years from now, there'll have been several rounds of changes to how an equivalent personal genomics kit will be marketed based on changes to what we know between now and then.