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Re:FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe by aestra on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:58PM (#6796510)
>Elsewhere in consumerland, the product is sold, and independent testing is performed on off-the-shelf samples

Not true.

Do you really think I can start legally marketing a car seat or a crib without safety testing it first? Wrong.

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Business--Manufacturing/Testing-Certi...

Federal law requires manufacturers and importers to test many consumer products for compliance with consumer product safety requirements. Based on passing test results, the manufacturer or importer must certify the consumer product as compliant with the applicable consumer product safety requirements in a written certificate that it must provide to retailers, distributors and, upon request, to the government.

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Re:FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe by logfromblammo on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:17PM (#6796649)
As a point of order, you cannot refute a "there exists" assertion with any number of counterexamples.

My point was that it doesn't have to work in the way that the FDA (and other examples of other regulatory agencies) currently function, and your response did not address that.

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