Food and Drug Administration

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The US Food and Drug Administration 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 any delusional shite imaginable, as the free and sovereign individuals they want to be.

The libertarians offer studies in which they have worked out 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, but political realities are that the FDA would suffer greater political penalties from approving bad drugs than it suffers from disapproving good ones.[1]

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