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Underwriters Laboratory and Consumer Reports are two free market answers.


Yeah but consumer reports is telling you whether your clothes will get clean in the washer, not whether you’ll die. Pretty much anything they test is regulated by safety by someone else.

UL is a better example but it is defacto required by the US legal environment for any serious retailer. And UL/ETL stamps are notoriously faked on imported items. If that was the standard my drugs were made to, I’d avoid imports altogether, and trust only drugs made by a company that can be sued in my local court jurisdiction.


The government has a proper role in preventing harm.




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