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Re:Who regulates the regulators? (Against the review-and-app... by JumpCrisscross on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:21PM (#35836347)
> the feedback they get is either negative if there's a bad product released, or neutral if there is no terrible product released

Patient activists and drug companies lobby to make stonewalling approvals difficult.

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Re:Who regulates the regulators? (Against the review-and-app... by throwway120385 on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:26PM (#35836390)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure lobbying and hiring good lobbyists to the FDA is the only reason one of the projects I worked on saw the light of day. If our CEO hadn't already been through the process it would have died in De Novo.
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