Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
by nitrogen on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:49PM
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Not sure if you are serious, but markets don't work in the face of incomplete information, a state exacerbated by misleading advertising around antibacterial and germicidal products. Arguing that the market knows more than scientists about triclosan is...bizarre.
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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
by bko on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:03PM
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Markets and prices exist precisely due to imperfect information. Do you know all the resources that go into making a product? Probably not. This is pretty basic economics:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/04/the_powe...