• @Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    431 year ago

    Well, when the government fails to adequately regulate, leaving it up to industry to self-report, this is the only foreseeable outcome - for pretty much any industry.
    Greed is a massively corrupting influence.

    I know that the producers don’t self-report. They’re supposed to contract with testing labs, but when there’s a lack of standardized procedures and oversight, the producers lab-shop until they find a lab that has tweaked their processes in such a way that reports favorably on even substandard goods.
    In that way, the labs become facilitators of a flawed regulatory process.

    The only real fix is more and better oversight (including verification of results from testing laboratories) and standardization of testing procedures.