The FDA and genetic testing: Improper tools for a difficult problem

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued draft guidance on how it intends to regulate laboratory-developed tests, including genetic tests. This article argues that genetic tests differ from traditional targets of FDAregulation in both product as well as industry landscape, and that the FDA's traditional tools are ill-suited for regulating this space.While existing regulatory gaps do create risks in genetic testing, the regulatory burden of the FDA's proposal introduces new risks for both test providers and patients that may offset the benefits. Incremental expansion of current oversight outside of the FDA can mitigate many of the risks necessitating increased oversight while avoiding the creation of new ones that could undermine this industry.

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Willmarth, K. (2016). The FDA and genetic testing: Improper tools for a difficult problem. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2(3), 158–166. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv002

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