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Home » FDA Panel Discusses Regulating Leeches and Maggots as Medical Devices
FDA Panel Discusses Regulating Leeches and Maggots as Medical Devices
September 2, 2005
While the FDA has agreed that some bloodsucking and flesh-eating animals should be considered medical devices, it has not yet quite figured out just how to regulate them — despite several thousand years’ worth of experience in their application by clinical practitioners and others.