A prescription for the US FDA for the regulation of health misinformation New Comment from Harlan Krumholz and colleagues hmkyale ktkadakia AdamLBeckman harvardmed YaleMed
Although health misinformation was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, the regulation of health information has long been fundamental to the FDA’s mission of consumer protection.Regulation of health and consumer goods was largely non-existent prior to the twentieth century, with food products frequently mislabeled and pill bottles often carrying claims of cures without any verification of their benefits, side effects or ingredients.
The past century of food and drug law offers examples that highlight the FDA’s critical role in addressing health information but simultaneously expose the limits of the agency’s abilities. For example, laetrile is an apricot seed extract that gained attention as a purported anticancer therapy and was banned by the FDA in 1977 after regulators found no evidence of benefit and received multiple reports of injuries and deaths.
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