Article: FDA guidelines to the CAM products industry.(Townsend's New York Observer)(Food and Drug Administration)(complimentary and alternative medicine)

 
  It is impossible to eliminate all risks from using medicine, though 
  this has been a dominant aim of government policy. Because it is not 
  possible ... this goal has taken on aspects of the Holy Grail. Its 
  pursuit has removed the consumer from control over several aspects of 
  drug use: when to take a drug, which drug to take, and how much of the 
  drug to take. The drastic curtailment of consumers' control over their 
  own progress in the interests of having the "best" drug chosen raises 
  the question of how far the government should go to protect people 
  from their own risky choices. The question is not unique to drugs. It 
  applies as well to other facets of ...

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