Feds Tell Court They Can Decide What You Eat

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by GBBob

That, I disagreed with..but in general, I think the FDA does need to have some regulatory power

Don't get me wrong. I do think we need the FDA. I do think the FDA should have some regulatory power. If a drug is killing people, the FDA obviously needs to take it off the market.

The question is how much power should the FDA have. I personally would rather that they have less power than more power. I don't think they need to regulate everything out there. I have no problem with some type of FDA seal of approval. That seems like it would be the best idea in most of these cases.

Why not have a simple label on all of these products? For things that are approved by the FDA, there could be a seal of approval that says "the FDA has approved this product". For products that are not approved by the FDA, you could have a warning label that says, "This product has not been approved by the "FDA".

I would be more comfortable with something like that.