[dmm]

1. The vast majority of the cost of FDA regulation is in ensuring the effectiveness of medicines, yet whenever someone defends the purpose of the FDA they cite examples of medicine safety.

2. The FDA keeps arsenic out of our medicines and that's totally related to fulfilling arbitrary and expensive effectiveness regulations! Ineffective and dangerous medicines like fen-phen getting through just proves we need more regulations! Baaa!

[notyourday]

We have one very interesting and totally unregulated market that is quite similar. The market is cosmetics and beauty products. As long as products make no medical claims it is total buyer beware. I seriously doubt anyone in the United States wants that to be applied to medicine and medical instruments.