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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Abbott plant is supposed to reopen in a few weeks.  Baffling how supposedly professional private sector industry screwed the pooch so badly where it comes to sanitation after gaining a monopoly on the market.  I bet you some Abbott execs got very rich somewhere along the line cutting corners.

And once again it goes to show that "small government" Republicans have none of the answers.  Leave it up to them and the monopoly problem, the dead-babies-from-contaminated-formula problem only gets worse.[/quote]
Part of the reason they have a monopoly right or wrong is because of strict FDA regulations. Once companies become large they tend to welcome lots of regulation requirements to keep  smaller companies from growing and discourage other companies from opening.  See Amazon who for years fought against having to collect sales tax in all states which collect it and then did a 180 on the position once they were large enough to try to keep out other platforms. The creation of the FDA was actually inspired in part by the Heinz company who pushed for its creation claiming to be a concerned company and that all new food companies should follow their clean factory specs. Heinz knew full well it would keep out other competitors because they couldn’t afford to open a new factory like theirs without significant capital. [/quote]

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