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[-] Monument 42 points 1 year ago

Well, when the government fails to adequately regulate, leaving it up to industry to self-report, this is the only foreseeable outcome - for pretty much any industry.
Greed is a massively corrupting influence.

I know that the producers don’t self-report. They’re supposed to contract with testing labs, but when there’s a lack of standardized procedures and oversight, the producers lab-shop until they find a lab that has tweaked their processes in such a way that reports favorably on even substandard goods.
In that way, the labs become facilitators of a flawed regulatory process.

The only real fix is more and better oversight (including verification of results from testing laboratories) and standardization of testing procedures.

this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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