"Someday, a commercial product may replace stool, making some of these issues less fraught..." A synthetic product has been developed in Canada and tested succ

"Someday, a commercial product may replace stool, making some of these issues less fraught..." A synthetic product has been developed in Canada and tested successfully: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/fake-fecal-transplants-for-gut-repo-13-01-10/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/fake-fecal... Curiously, one of the barriers to commercialization cited is the easy, low-cost availability of the "natural" alternative: "However, economic barriers to such a synthetic pill are significant. Elaine Petrof, an infectious-disease expert at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, has created RePOOPulate, a mix of 33 different types of bacteria grown in the lab to mimic the microbiome1. Her team spent two years getting the equipment to grow the bacteria up and running, but the process is still expensive and the bacteria finicky. 'Honestly, good luck to you,' she says to companies trying to commercialize the technology. The high cost of producing bacteria in this way would be less of a barrier if the alternative were not so cheap. As Tom Moore, a physician and infectious-disease specialist in Wichita, Kansas, puts it: 'It’ll be difficult to compete with the ready availability and very cheap costs of human poop.'" (http://www.nature.com/news/faeces-filled-pill-stops-gut-infection-1.13885 http://www.nature.com/news/faeces-filled-pill-stops-gut-infe...)