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On the recordNovember 16, 2015
I hope that as you go forward with your responsibilities in the space of apps and communications technology that are adapted to measuring health effects that you'll recognize that, in many respects, this is a very valuable and robust industry that could well be over-regulated if the FDA's authority over those sorts of devices extended too far.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse warns against over-regulating health tech apps.

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