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The collar's not for sale. Performance Sports Group, which makes athletic equipment, has licensed the technology and is applying to the FDA for approval. It's hoping bring the collar to market in the next year or two.
Gee, what would we do without a bureaucracy that killed tens of thousands of Americans in the 60's, AIDS sufferers in the 80's and is now delaying concussion protection?
There's a big cost to the public when companies submit applications and then wait years for FDA approval.
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"We're losing time, precious time that lives are dependent upon," Emord said. "MIM Software developed a simple mobile device that would combine MRI images, PET scans, CAT scans all together and produce a super image that was better for diagnosis ... right on your phone. To get that through the agency, it took two and a half years and cost some hundreds of thousands of dollars. All the while it could have been in use, and ultimately it was approved."
Lawyers and reporters encourage bureaucrats to move slowly. If something goes wrong, the media make a huge fuss about it, and the class-action parasites pounce. But when the FDA delays a device for years and people die, we don't report that. We don't even know who the victims are.
I'd be in favor of allowing things withouot FDA approval to be sold as long as they are clearly marked "Not Approvd by the FDA".
That being said, if you are engaging in activity that requires your head to be strangled in order to protect yourself from something worse, maybe you shouldn't be engaging in that activity in the first place.
the problem isnt the FDA, its the damned lawyers that sue everyone at the drop of a hat, or anything else that happens to be around. the drug companies bring out a new drug, the FDA ultimately approves it, the lawyers start suing a few month later.
Before every jumps into the air over this, please wait a minute and think this through.
No matter how good a claim from the manufacturer is, they are in the business to make money. I am all for free market but sometimes greed kept unchecked has serious consequences. Remember this one time someone created this super safe wonder drug which could have saved us from all other miseries but it turned out to cause millions of birth defects?
Before every jumps into the air over this, please wait a minute and think this through.
No matter how good a claim from the manufacturer is, they are in the business to make money. I am all for free market but sometimes greed kept unchecked has serious consequences. Remember this one time someone created this super safe wonder drug which could have saved us from all other miseries but it turned out to cause millions of birth defects?
i actually agree with this. back in the old days, the FDA actually did their jobs and did their own testing. these days they practically rubber stamp the testing done by the manufacturers.
I'd be in favor of allowing things withouot FDA approval to be sold as long as they are clearly marked "Not Approvd by the FDA".
That being said, if you are engaging in activity that requires your head to be strangled in order to protect yourself from something worse, maybe you shouldn't be engaging in that activity in the first place.
Yes the problem is the FDA and where is the establishment of it authorized within the constitution?
I cannot lay a finger on that article of the Constitution.
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