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What Type of Salt Should You Buy? Rethinking 1924 Food Fortification Policy in 2024

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However, while some members of the salt industry were excited by the potential to improve public health through their product, others were not. The Morton Salt Company argued that furnishing iodine to the populus properly belonged to large pharmaceutical companies. The mandatory order was later repealed in 1946.

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

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Pressure from Senator Bernie Sanders, Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee seems to have catalyzed the administration to make this move. pharmaceutical market. Moreover, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index increased by 374% from 1995 to 2000. In 1989, the U.S.