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No, that’s not how the EU does it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfluorex

A drug that was highly suspected of killing several hundred to several thousand people stayed on the market for decades.

A similar drug with similar risks was pulled from the US market 24 years earlier.




Would you say Benflourex is an outlier or the norm regarding the EUs stance?




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