{"id":29889,"date":"2013-11-25T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T03:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29889"},"modified":"2013-11-25T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T03:59:07","slug":"fda-warns-23andme-to-stop-providing-inexpensive-genetic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29889","title":{"rendered":"FDA Warns 23andme to Stop Providing Inexpensive Genetic Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 2013 the FDA sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ICECI\/EnforcementActions\/WarningLetters\/2013\/ucm376296.htm\">letter<\/a> to 23andme telling them to stop selling their \u201c23andMe Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS)\u201d The reason for the halt is that their $99 service, which provides purchasers with a genetic analysis of their saliva, hasn&#8217;t been approved by the FDA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.23andme.com\/health\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/23andMe-logo.jpg\" alt=\"23andMe\" width=\"172\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last year 23andme has directed their advertising toward testing for diseases and drug interaction. This is what the FDA seems to be warning them to stop doing.<\/p>\n<p>23andme is not the only genetic testing company to get warning letters. The FDA has been coming down on many testing facilities. Inexpensive genetic testing has become available in the last few years and the U.S. government\u2019s bloated bureaucracy has now decided it is time to take it away from you. Or at least that\u2019s my opinion. Others with really cool titles may disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Gorman from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/\">blogs.scientificamerican.com<\/a>, in an article titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2013\/11\/25\/fda-was-right-to-block-23andme\/\">FDA Was Right to Block 23andMe<\/a>\u201d compared \u201chome gene kits\u201d for finding your ancestors ethnicity to a \u201c21st century equivalent of looking up your horoscope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some have stated that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/fda-sends-warning-to-genetic-testing-company-23andme?cid=rss\"> the FDA is concerned about the consequences of both false positive and false negative results.<\/a>\u201d But considering how long it takes to get better medications in the U.S., I don\u2019t buy that argument. <\/p>\n<p>Razib Khan from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/\">blogs.discovermagazine.com<\/a>, in his article titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/fda-23andme\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverBlogs%20%28Discover%20Blogs%29#.UpPVcdKsim4\">The FDA and 23andMe<\/a>\u201d compared the FDA move to the \u201cRecording Industry Association of America\u201d attack on Napster. Napster took the hit, but as any teenager knows, if you want the free music, you can get the free music. The FDA may successfully break 23andMe, but once we have had a taste of inexpensive genetic testing, we will find a way to continue to have it.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion, for what it&#8217;s worth, is that it is just another of many attacks by the federal bureaucracy on the small businesses of America.<\/p>\n<p>Article by Dale Ralph Meitzler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 2013 the FDA sent a letter to 23andme telling them to stop selling their \u201c23andMe Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS)\u201d The reason for the halt is that their $99 service, which provides purchasers with <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29889\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  FDA Warns 23andme to Stop Providing Inexpensive Genetic Testing<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna-research","category-partly-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29902,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions\/29902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}