Study identifies groups of people who mistrust the FDA

The FDA has work to do to earn the con­fi­dence of cer­tain groups of peo­ple who do not trust the agency, a study pub­lished Fri­day by re­searchers at Har­vard Med­ical School and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado School of Med­i­cine found. But how ex­act­ly the FDA will win that trust re­mains an open ques­tion.

The re­sults of the sur­vey of more than 2,000 Amer­i­cans re­vealed that women, peo­ple in rur­al ar­eas, con­ser­v­a­tives, peo­ple with poor health, and peo­ple with­out chil­dren un­der the age of 18 were among those who were par­tic­u­lar­ly skep­ti­cal of the FDA.

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