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LETTERS.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)
An FDA Alternative?
While it may be true that the Canadian government's price controls are partly to blame for the prescription drug price differentials between the U.S. and Canada, your call for deregulation in "Drugs And Trade" (Editorial, Thursday) is missing the other leading villain: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA stops many drugs that have been found safe by similar agencies in other countries from being sold in the U.S. It also makes the entire approval process exceedingly expensive, yet in many cases it bows to pressure from certain companies and approves unsafe medications.
Lastly, it has fought to prohibit nutritional supplement companies from making valid claims, such as those for folic acid.
The bottom line is that we don't have a truly free market on this side of the border either. You should instead be pushing for private quality controls, such as those Underwriter Laboratories Inc. provides for the electrical industry.
Joe Abbate, Miami
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