Re:The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)
by tn13 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:36AM
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How many americans die each year because FDA has taken too much of time to approve drugs ?
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Re:The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)
by Symmetry on Sunday September 04, 2016 @09:13AM
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This is the only collection of research on the topic I've seen but if anybody has evidence for a lower number I'd be happy to see it.
http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php
Specifically:
[T]he benefits of FDA regulation relative to that in foreign countries could reasonably be put at some 5,000 casualties per decade or 10,000 per decade for worst-case scenarios. In comparison, it has been argued above that the cost of FDA delay can be estimated at anywhere from 21,000 to 120,000 lives per decade