This is Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

This is a fun one. This has to do with new FDA rules.

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And this has to do with commercials for drugs that you see on TV. And you notice that about half the commercial are side effects, right?

This will cause you, it'll cause diarrhea, it'll cause you, your loss of vision for guys, your scrotum will fall off.

It's oily stools, you might die, you'll always have constriction of your throat, I mean, all of it, your legs will fall off. It's oily stools. You might die. You always have constriction of your throat.

I mean, all of it. Your legs will fall off. Yeah, whatever. Whatever the side effect is for a drug.

And it used to be that that wasn't even necessary. The FDA chose those rules. Now change them

because you have to hear those side effects. About half of it. Okay.

So they've changed the rules again. Why? Well, two things are going on. First of all, the side

effects go at 100 miles an hour and you can't understand them uh two what they purposely do on those commercials

is distract you so you don't pay attention for example uh there was a commercial uh for an allergy drug

and as uh the disclaimer as the side effects are being voiced, it was, there was a buzzing

bee in the background voiced by Antonio Bondaris, and that distracted viewers from actually

paying attention to the disclaimer, the side effects.

And so the Food and Drug Administration now says, that's done, finished.

Now for TV drug ads, much simpler language, no distractions at all,

and they're going to make it much easier to understand what's going on

because here are the rules you have to give side uh the side effects you have to voice those

or read them out but actually voice those now and but you can't distract either you can't do

the commercial that would cause a distraction by the way i have no idea what a distraction is i can't distract either. You can't do the commercial that would cause a distraction.

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