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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by omginternets on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:51PM (#12417489)
>Errr, you do know that the FDA (I think it was that part of the Federal government) had to re-define scientific "truth" to come up with that general effect?

Could you elaborate? What did they do?

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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by hga on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:31AM (#12418485)
The usual data massaging wasn't enough, like ignoring 19 of the 30 existing studies as of then, so they changed the confidence level required from the standard 95% to 90%. Look up commentary on their 1993 "Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders" for more details.
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