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In court, they argued that the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act limits the FDA's regulatory powers to drugs and medical devices that provide medical benefits . The tobacconists' perverse logic held that poisonous products like cigarettes, for which no health claim is made, should fall outside government regulation.
The administration's recent daily initiatives are merely cosmetic.
Recent changes to the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, which regulates the Food and Drug Administration approval process, have specified a fast-track drug designation to expedite review for drugs that have "the potential to address unmet medical needs for serious and life-threatening conditions" [ 35].
Critics on the right dismissed the tour as a simplistic photo op, and Peter Edelman, a former Clinton official who quit to protest the 1996 welfare reform, called it cosmetic, arguing that Clinton "cannot admit the extent of the problem because his Administration has a vested interest in the notion that welfare reform has been a success."
In contrast to our results, a number of studies have shown that the likelihood of BCS decreases with increasing age [ 11 30 33 ] , possibly due to less concern about cosmetic results.