This context explains the challenge confronting the genetic testing industry today.

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Hamburg and Jeffrey Shuren, the director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, also have stumbled in a ham-handed attempt, announced two years ago, to expand regulatory control over the genetic testing industry, also regulated by CDRH.

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Earlier this year, in a Forbes issue focused on the burgeoning consumer genetic industry, I wrote a small piece on the possibility for surreptitious DNA testing, i.e. someone sending your genetic information to a DNA lab without your knowledge.

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