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The FDA wants an outside review. My suggestion is a sunset the agency review.

I saw a post on Ars Technica today quoting Robert Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has commissioned an external review of its food and tobacco programs in the wake of high-profile debacles—including bungled oversight of e-cigarettes, most notably of Juul products, and a dire nationwide shortage of infant and specialty formulas that left many parents scrambling and some babies in the hospital.

How many times do we need to suffer from an federal agency messing up our lives?

Another post the from Marginal Revolution RSS feed writer Tyler Cowen describes the mountain of paperwork healthcare providers must overcome to administer monkeypox treatment. Cowen is reading an article from the Washington Post.

One commenter says this is bogus because the vaccine supply is limited and the paperwork throttles demand. Another commenter says that is not true because there are 2 million doses available.

Don’t get me started on the FDA. How many people have died since it came into existence when the FDA delayed the use of medicine as it went through the bureaucratic approval process? A current example is sunscreen. Other countries have better sunscreen options than the US but the FDA is dragging its feet despite Congress telling them to approve them.