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This is an excellent case against people who have a similar view to, say, Ron Paul, who tell us that government regulation doesn't work. Without the FDA, who's to prevent things like poison in food? While I recognize that the current incarnation of the FDA has very serious issues with inability, whether that can be attributed to gross misconduct, mismanagement, or simply not having enough funds and personnel.
I do very seriously believe that regulation of products is absolutely necessary, and that the corporations of the country and the world, if left to their own devices, would not regulate themselves. I do believe, based on precedence, that many corporations are satisfied to put profit above the welfare of not only the public, but their own customers. To anyone who would sell a stick filled with carcinogens and addictive chemicals that they know to cause cancer is proof in and of itself.
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