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2015-11-10 Science & Technology

FDA Warns Another Company About Unapproved Consumer Genetic Tests

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-10 03:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Muslims won't comply anyway.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-11-10 05:19|| 2015-11-10 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 the company's test appears to meet the definition of a medical device,

One more open ended legal definition that give unlimited power to the bureaucrats and tyrants, but I repeat myself.

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-10 08:00|| 2015-11-10 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I would say it is more of a tool that used medical knowledge and databases to bring about a result.

IMHO, the FDA doesn't really have much of a say since the person isn't brining the product into their body or using it as a medical device like an EKG.

If fitbit watches aren't FDA approved, then this shouldn't be either.

Fuck off FDA.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-10 08:48|| 2015-11-10 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I will repeat. Once partners and myself considered a 3d device to track changes in body imperfections like moles. I did a search on other devices and came across one that looked for cancer in moles with several colors of low powered LEDs. (Yes low power versions of LED lighting that is all about us starting with calculators.) The crooks at the FDA demanded a 230 million dollar study from that company to prove that low power colored LEDs wouldn't cause cancer. The doctors who invented the device wanted to use it so bad they caved and let VC's get more than a %90 interest so that the stupid study could be paid for.
We decided to never ever do anything that could be construed in any way as a medical device.
My opinion of those FDA bureaucrats is below my respect of Satan and his fallen.
They are even below pond scum.

Posted by 3dc 2015-11-10 11:14|| 2015-11-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 3dc: the more expensive the government makes health care, the more power they get to "help" with the situation.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-11-10 11:20|| 2015-11-10 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 ...so socialist then.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-10 11:20|| 2015-11-10 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, and I've told you about the whole colchisine thing in the past, right?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-11-10 11:22|| 2015-11-10 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Snowy - the old crushed crocus med for gout?
BTW... crush a crocus and put the juice on the apical meristem of a monopolid plant and the cells that develop from that meristem become di-and-multi-polid. (multiplies chromosome numbers) You can then cross it with other species that match the new chromosome count or just have a custom plant that might optimize some feature for you.

Posted by 3dc 2015-11-10 12:09|| 2015-11-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Yah, I told you about the various "the generic went away" crisis I went through in 2009, right?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-11-10 14:48|| 2015-11-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Typed to fast: Snowy - the old crushed colchicine crocus - use dates to Rome or further back.

Posted by 3dc 2015-11-10 14:48|| 2015-11-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#11 And chances are crushed it is in just the right strength for you to use.

Posted by 3dc 2015-11-10 14:50|| 2015-11-10 14:50|| Front Page Top

#12 My testosterone patches are a "Medical Device".

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-11-10 19:38|| 2015-11-10 19:38|| Front Page Top

#13 My testosterone patches are a "Medical Device".

The nutraceutical DHEA is a testosterone precurser that the body converts to testosterone, Deacon Blues. Available in the vitamin section of your grocery store or drug store between fish oil and vitamin D, without any interference from the FDA. Also useful for women taking hormonal birth control or hormone replacement treatments, as both significantly reduce normal female levels of testosterone.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-10 20:43|| 2015-11-10 20:43|| Front Page Top

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