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Correspondence to:
Dr Michael Siegel
Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, TW2, Boston, MA 02118, USA; mbsiegel@bu.edu
Keywords: Food and Drug Administration; FDA
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There are two essential elements of a policy analysis: (1) it should provide an accounting of all harms and benefits of a proposed policy and then weigh these harms and benefits13; and (2) it should be evidence basedit should assess the likelihood of policy effects not from the perspective of what could happen based on hypothetical considerations or pure speculation, but on documented effects or theoretical or conceptual research.13
Any analysis that fails to identify both harms and benefits of a policy, fails to weigh these in drawing its overall conclusion, or is not evidence based, is likely to be flawed and highly subject to bias. Thus, my approach here is to provide an accounting of the harms and benefits of the US Senate Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Bill, using an evidence based approach to assess the likely policy effects.
PROVISIONS OF BILL FOR WHICH THERE IS EVIDENCE OF A POSITIVE EFFECT ON PUBLIC HEALTH
Strengthening of warning labels
For only one provision of the
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