Medicine should not be proven 100% safe before released to the market

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On the point: There is no 100%.

There is *no* 100% certainty. Even established ideas like Evolution or that the heart pumps blood around the body are not 100% known. Maybe 95%,maybe 99.9999999% percent certainty is achieved, but 100% never is and never will be. New techniques would be trapped in a never ending cycle of tests.

When 100% safety is aimed, 90% is achieved. The purpose of charging pharmaceuticals with the responsibility to produce quality products that are to their optimum standard is that they try to make medicines as safe as possible.  
There may not be a 100% but the point is to make a 100% effort to keep/make medicines safe and not to be cavalier with people's lives.

Yes, because... There is no 100%.

 

No, because...

There is *no* 100% certainty. Even established ideas like Evolution or that the heart pumps blood around the body are not 100% known. Maybe 95%,maybe 99.9999999% percent certainty is achieved, but 100% never is and never will be. New techniques would be trapped in a never ending cycle of tests.

 

When 100% safety is aimed, 90% is achieved. The purpose of charging pharmaceuticals with the responsibility to produce quality products that are to their optimum standard is that they try to make medicines as safe as possible.

There may not be a 100% but the point is to make a 100% effort to keep/make medicines safe and not to be cavalier with people's lives.

 
22 February 2011