USSR still had oversight over food production, because people may still contaminate food accidentally or because they didn’t maintain the storage and production equipment in good (and clean) enough shape.
Even without the profit motive people can still fuck shit up, and you still sometimes get quacks trying to convince people to take their snake oil miracle cures. Standards organizations exists for a reasons.
As someone who has worked as a QC in both food and pharmaceutical industries, let me tell you that contaminations are not only driven by profit motives. Scientists and workers are all human beings and therefore are not immune to errors. Fuck-ups actually happen in the supply chain and that’s why regulations are there.
If there were no regulatory bodies to research and publish these contingent issues and their preventative measures, it would become near damn impossible for every drug maker to come up with their own safety protocols. Regulatory authorities are not only regulation institutions, they are also public services.
In a just society without a profit motive the incentive to adulterate foods/drugs disappears.
Today, regulators are needed to combat the consequences of the profit motive.
USSR still had oversight over food production, because people may still contaminate food accidentally or because they didn’t maintain the storage and production equipment in good (and clean) enough shape.
Even without the profit motive people can still fuck shit up, and you still sometimes get quacks trying to convince people to take their snake oil miracle cures. Standards organizations exists for a reasons.
As someone who has worked as a QC in both food and pharmaceutical industries, let me tell you that contaminations are not only driven by profit motives. Scientists and workers are all human beings and therefore are not immune to errors. Fuck-ups actually happen in the supply chain and that’s why regulations are there.
If there were no regulatory bodies to research and publish these contingent issues and their preventative measures, it would become near damn impossible for every drug maker to come up with their own safety protocols. Regulatory authorities are not only regulation institutions, they are also public services.