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In the Battle Over Personal Health Data, 23andMe and the FDA Are Both Wrong

Just wrote for Slate’s Future Tense on the current regulator battles over personal health data.

Last month, the FDA told 23andMe to stop marketing direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits. The FDA wants assurance that the company has “analytically or clinically validated” the genetic data that they provide their customers. The company has claimed that it provides information and data, not medical advice, but this week it announced that for now, it will only sell “raw” genetic data analysis and ancestry reports, just not health interpretations.

Read more at Slate:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/_23andme_vs_the_fda_both_are_wrong.html