[quote]orion wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
Because the FDA testing found potential problems. Why weren’t the companies testing every lot and just doing the minimum mandated by the FDA?
Now Zap, do you really need someone to hold your hand and tell you life is risky and to be careful?
Why do you think the government has any more incentive to protect you than a business who relies on your continued consumption of their products.
We don’t need more regulations that could be covered by malpractice and fraud.
Business do not rely on my continued support, they regularly close the doors. There are plenty of get rich quick people that will be more than happy to sell substandard products as long as they can get away with it and then move on and do it again. Modern forms of transportation have destroyed your mythical way of life.
Why would you buy from those companies?
I would expect the reputation of a company to become much more important if the government wasn´t building a false sense of security which often is not warranted.
Especially in the age of the Internet consumer watch groups practically form instantaneously whenever there is a problem.
Then, agencies like the FDA slow scientific progress down.
Unfortunately only the lives the FDA saves are counted, they are never held accountable for the lives that could have been saved were it not for the FDA, because it was not the FDA that killed them, but cancer, Parkinson’s or whatever.
That the FDA was instrumental in making research in these areas next to impossible is something almost noone has on the radar.
Obviously there is some sort of optimal trade off, but I do not expect a government official to find it.
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This is a joke, isn’t it?
In this age we have no idea what comes from where. Many companies do not even know who made which part for their product as they buy the same part from multiple suppliers.