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Aloisius 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal ...

"Safe" for the FDA means the benefits outweigh the potential risks, not safe in absolute terms.

If the FDA actually required every drug to be proven safe at any dose for everyone, we'd have no modern drugs.

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