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My point was merely to give an idea of the sheer size of an application in a way that TB would not.

Every FOIA request is screened by humans, which can result in false positives and negatives. So could a machine-screened result. Would people be comfortable with an automated screener, which, while hard to do with classified info, would conceptually be possible with FDA records (from either food or drug side). The records are quite free form.

I’m in favor of these records being public except perhaps some proprietary process data. Of course it will be used by people who don’t understand it for wild attacks.