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From: barry levine
Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Subject: re: The Anosmia Case
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Subject: re: The Anosmia Case
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
The anosmia case cries out for a remedy that we've already had. Until 1994, anyone peddling a remedy for a cold had to get by the FDA. Only in that year did congress create a new classification that is neither "food" nor "drug" and therefore available to the consumer without having first shown safety and efficacy. Nutriceuticals account for billions of dollars in trade annually; most of that money is spent on products that are both harmless and useless. For the sake of the few that turn out to be dangerous, the federal government has a compelling interest in regulating them all.
Barry Levine
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