Food and Drug Administration

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food safety, tobacco, dietary supplements, legal medications, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation-emitting devices (ERED), veterinary products and cosmetics.

Its job is to make sure stuff like this will not harm you or rip you off. As such, it has two main enemies: alternative medicine, which considers this "science" stuff unconscionable oppression, and libertarians, who want to be free to buy and sell any delusional shite imaginable, as the free and sovereign individuals they want to be. (Just don't die at the hospital which we just privatized!)

Studies have been made which suggest that many more people die of the lack of drugs the FDA is slow in approving than would die of the drugs that would be approved in a less rigid approval process. This is because political realities are that the FDA would suffer greater political penalties from approving bad drugs than it suffers from disapproving good ones.[1]

Due to legal loopholes, some non-functional medications can be sold as long as they include the disclaimer this statement has not been evaluated by the FDA.

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