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Without the FDA's slow-moving approval process, the harm done by Thalidomide's side-effects would have been enormously worse than they were.
Here's an FDA blog (apparently these exist - who knew?) on exactly this:
https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/02/50-years-af...
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Without the FDA's slow-moving approval process, the harm done by Thalidomide's side-effects would have been enormously worse than they were.
Here's an FDA blog (apparently these exist - who knew?) on exactly this:
https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/02/50-years-af...