Researchers suggest fecal transplants should be regulated as tissue not drug
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-02-fecal-transplants-tissue-drug.html
(Medical Xpress)A trio of researchers are suggesting in a Comment piece in the journal Nature, that the FDA should cease regulating fecal transplants as drugs and should instead begin treating them as tissue product procedures. In their article, Mark Smith, Colleen Kelly and Eric Alm suggest that treating fecal material as a drug is inhibiting research into its beneficial possibilities and is preventing its use in many instances by physicians unwilling to undergo the bureaucratic process needed with unapproved drugs.
Capturing fecal matter from one person and placing it into another for medicinal purposes has been investigated for over half a century, but its only in the past several years that it's become a much higher profile therapydue mostly to research that has uncovered more details about the gut biome....
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