Jim H  writes:
> Richard Kettlewell  wrote:
>>Joe  writes:
>>> Thalidomide was 'safe' and 'properly tested'.
>>
>>Not by modern standards it wasn’t. It was, famously, a trigger for
>>tightening up the regulatory regimes.
>
> The refusal of the FDA to approve the drug suggests it didn't meet the
> standards of the time... which have been tightened considerably since.

Many other countries approved it (hence the subsequent disaster) - the
FDA (or possibly just the specific officer assigned to the application)
was clearly ahead of the rest of the world at that point.

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