10-17-2018, 10:08 AM
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Old Far...er...Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Plano, TX resident since 1998.
Posts: 3,965
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Originally Posted by tbzep
And thanks to over-regulation (que GH), it was banned because the product was "guilty until proven innocent". Due to the high cost of studies to prove it was ok, companies just gave up and quit selling it in the USA.
From Wiki
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved it from the “generally recognized as safe” classification into the “untested” classification.
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I read that, too 
That said, given how our culture has evolved to be so lawsuit paranoid, I cannot blame the corporate decision makers for backing off, especially when they stand to lose money on the deal.
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Now, imagine doing hard time for smuggling mercurochrome into the US
Doug
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