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Regulators here generally have a mandate to screen for both safety and efficacy. I think the mandate for efficacy is quite important--if you loosen standards there, you get warped incentives, and you'll end up spending lots of money on things that the producers know don't work. We already have an example of such an industry in the health supplement industry.



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