[barrkel]

Nobody has personal time or money to do the research required. We need some organization to centralize the work and indicate what's safe and what's not safe with enough robustness that unsafe products aren't easily sold to the unwary.

We generally call these things government agencies, but any other body with the same function - private or public - will be susceptible to the same kinds of forces that government agencies are. All we can do is try and build institutions good processes, adversarial audits that ensure processes are followed, and mechanisms to adjust processes when they're found to be lacking.

We generally call the latter mechanisms democracy. It's not great, but it's the best we've come up with.

[exitcode00]

Well, you'll end up with toxic drinking water with this attitude. I don't know what the right solution is, but saying you don't know enough at this point to throw out your teflon pans and avoid certain products and that you don't want to research things is lazy and ignorant.

Citizen's levying large class-actions suits and making documentaries like "The Devil We Know" are perhaps the best tools we have to stop fascist corruption.

[barrkel]

I don't understand what you're responding to in what I wrote, sorry.